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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
This forum is about MODERN e-readers, most of which have been around less than several years (as opposed to ancient tech devices....).
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It is very nice of you to tell us what this forum is about.
This forum was established before the first e-ink readers appeared.
The forum was established on in 2002, the first e-ink reader - Sony Librié was released on April 2004
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
Got an old, floppy-based IBM PC ? It'll display ebooks as plain text sure enough...
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My first dedicated e-book reader was an old notebook with 486 processor, greyscale LCD display, with burned-out harddisk, so I had to read books from a system floppy, with a small DOS-only text viewer and one book in plain text file.
My first handheld I used as a dedicated e-book reader had slot for memory card size of the full-sized PCMCIA card (about 85x55x6mm). And it still works.
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
Using an old palmtop device does NOT compare to an e-reader because they were NOT made as E-readers !
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Well, my first handheld for e-books was Cassiopeia A-11, manufactured in 1997. Its display is 5.25 inch non-backlit greyscale LCD display. A little bit improved brother of this old display is still used in JetBooks.