Langenscheidt alpha

8 - Electronic Dictionary English-Ge rman and Franco-German, published in 1983 by publisher Langensche idt. Contained 8000 words - after 4 thousands in any language. He was the first publicly available large-scale electronic dictiona ry in the world [1]. Sharp carried the device [2]. At the time of its debut on the market for a device costing 149 marks [2]. Work on the device lasted for five years. Originally negotiated with Siemens, but abandoned it when it turned out that the cost of developing the device will be ten million marks.