Craig M100 pamphlet

Craig M100 pamphlet

First to market with a standalone electronic dictionary was Lexicon, followed by Craig Electronics. Users could buy bilingual dictionaries on electronic cartridges to translate between English and other languages. Both devices were slow. They had limited storage—today’s entry-level iPhone has 64 million times the memory. But they were successful on first appearance, generating buzz that the age of digital dictionaries had finally arrived. As the novelty wore off, though, the limitations became ever more obvious. The revolution would take another few decades. 

Ex coll. Jack Lynch. HHD no. 127