Sony Data Discman: The First eBook Reader!

In the early 1990s, plenty of people didn’t even own computers yet -- but that didn’t stop Sony from trying to take books into the digital realm. Sources: “Portable Data Discs,“ Popular Mechanics, January 1992. Data Discman photo pool on Flickr: @N22/pool/with/6532350055/ Electronics Boutique catalog scan: Data Discman DD8 authoring software: ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (). Intro music by BoxCat Games ().