i don't think Bush actually built the MEMEX. another similar idea (Mondothèque) was documented by Paul Otlet about a decade before the MEMEX (1936). it, too, pre-saged the WWW: https://b.mamund.com/2GNvCFs
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Mike, thanks for asking. I saw a working model of a MEMEX in Princeton. It did not look like the illustrations and used magnetic tape, microfilm and a very large computer. It was part of bigger government funded project. The Voice interface was working in a very crude way.
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