The Sony MiniDisc Document Reader That Could Also Scan!

In the mid- to late 1990s, tablets and e-readers weren’t exactly common…and Sony’s Japan-only DATA EATA models were perhaps the most unique of them all.

Sources:
PDF-W77 press release: https://www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/Press/199907/99-0727A/
PDL-K77 auction photos: https://www.mercari.com/jp/items/m10609716165/
PC Magazine, November 2, 1999.
Memory Stick photo: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81tNPOIzmXL.AC_SL1500.jpg
PC Magazine, December 1, 1999.
Intuos 2 tablet photo: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/715720319/intuos2-wacom-tablet-medium-platinum?show_sold_out_detail=1
Sony PDF-5 photos: https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=176
Sony PDF-HD7 press release: https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/199612/96CI-143/
Sony PDF-V55 brochure: http://bbyamato1971.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2010/12/14sonypdf-v55da.html

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