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Brian Roemmele highlights the IBM PageScanner model 3119 after an estate donated…

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Brian Roemmele highlights the IBM PageScanner model 3119 after an estate donated more than 1,800,000 pages of a former research scientist’s notes that were scanned in 1988. He praises the 3119’s lines and design ethos, expresses surprise the device existed so early, and says its discovery “opens up more possibilities.”

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Now I want one of these!

Look at the lines and design ethos of the IBM 3119!

Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele)

BOOM!

An estate of a former research scientist has donated over 1,800,000 pages of research notes from the lab he ran!

In 1988 they used an IBM PageScanner model 3119. And they scanned everything!

I never knew this device existed so early on. It opens up more possibilities.

— https://nitter.net/BrianRoemmele/status/2053233157269553412#m