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A staff sergeant uses a light pen with early warning radar at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts, 1982.
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A staff sergeant uses a light pen with early warning radar at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts, 1982.
Picasso drawing with a light pen (flashlight?) in Vallauris
(Gjon Mili. 1949)
1983
Early touch-screen computing. From THE STORY OF COMPUTERS (1970).
C64 Cabletronic Lightpen
Es handelt sich hier um eine simple Lightpen für den C64 bzw. C128. Wie für diese Eingabemethode üblich, wird die Lightpen am Joystickport angeschlossen. Auf der mitgelieferten Kassette befindet sich ein Zeichenprogramm (Light Pen Plus) das vollständig mit der Lightpen verwendet werden kann. Des Weiteren befindet sich im Lieferumfang eine zweiseitige englischsprachige Anleitung die einige wichtige Informationen zur Bedienung des Zeichen-Programms beinhaltet.
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The light pen came with the box, manual, and the software on floppy as well.
Light pens are another piece of cool equipment that were so rarely used on old computers. It was a gimmick that didn’t really take hold. That didn’t stop me from making my own.