Thread: Ars Tecnica tests the 5 best e-readers for every budget 20190523
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Old 06-04-2019, 09:56 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by binaryhermit View Post
Getting a little away from things for a second, given that the first ebook is 1971 as far as I know (first upload to project Gutenberg). If you wanna widely define ebook reader, what was the first ebook reader
Using his definition, my first personal ebook reader was my computer in 1977. It had had a massive 64KB of memory and ran CP/M on a 4MHz Z-80 processor with a 15" amber monitor. With all the bits and pieces, it outweighed a Kobo Forma by just a bit.
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