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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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No, no, this is the real deal. Proof lies in the wheels. Note that is plural.
The outer wheel was for hardbound books and the smaller was for paperbacks.
You want more proof?
Originally there was just one wheel but it was found out that turning it at teh wrong speed caused drop outs in the text.
In a brilliant move Reader's Digest bought them and turned out a whole line of condensed books.
If you want more proof, make it up yourself.