Thread: What makes a (human) e-reader?
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Old 09-07-2020, 05:25 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
I'm curious who was reading ebooks in 1985. I mean, they existed, but screens were far from ideal back then! I thought that I was an early adopter, starting in ~1994...

(though I guess you could consider it a bit further back if you stretch the definition to include text based z-machine games like Zork that were basically just interactive stories )
Hmmm... I was reading documentation on my CP/M Z-80 based computer in 1978 (4MHz CPU, 64KiB, 2x1.4MB floppy disks). Even earlier on IBM/Amdahl mainframes and Data General and DEC minicomputers. Though I'm not sure if any of really qualifies as ebooks since they were pretty much simple text files.
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