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Originally Posted by HarryT
Dedicated bookreaders, yes. Portable devices on which one could read books, certainly not.
The first machine on which I read books was an early British PDA called the "Psion Organiser II", around 1986. See here. It had a built-in BASIC programming language and people quickly wrote software to allow it to display text files.
A few years later, around 1991, the hugely influential Psion 3 appeared, which had a clamshell design and a multitasking o/s. There was some great bookreading software available for that. I still have my Psion 3! |
Wow, reading eBooks on a 2 line display. That is dedication. I had some early orgainizers but would never have thought of reading eBooks on them. My first real reader was a Palm III. Earlier I had read some stuff on Commodore PET and even an early laptop but not real eBooks although I did have some Bible study programs on my character screen based laptop using DOS.
Dale