Huffington Post has a great article about a newspaper tablet that was developed by Knight Ridder in 1994. They also have a video that is really neat of “The Tablet Newspaper: A vision for the future”
Sixteen years ago, in a small office in Boulder, Colo., Roger Fidler was at the top of the newspaper technology world. Behind him was an original Apple Macintosh Duo laptop fitted neatly into its dock, and a Radius Pivot 15″ monitor oriented in its signature vertical position.
And sitting on his desk, next to his cup of coffee and stack of manila folders, was a prototype of a thin – about an inch thick – electronic tablet that was poised to revolutionize the print media.
