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Originally Posted by sabredog
This is the ereader prototype from Rand, shown to CNET during the 50's. It was a tad expensive and energy consuming, but they reckoned that a home's nuclear reactor would power it quite fine....
The wheel turns pages and the printer allows instant hard copy. The banks of dials measure page ahead and word count.
They could never lick the screen glare or neck crick though....
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Note the teletype and television long before the 80 column green screen was thought of. My neighbor has a great big wheel like that connected to his computer as well. It comes with a brake and accelerator.
A computer would not be economically viable for the average home.
I don't live in an average home I have two computers. HahAha.