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Always wanted to use a light pen but didn’t have a computer. When I finally got a C128, (BASIC 7 even included the PEN command!) I couldn’t really afford the commercial light pen versions.
I had forgotton that I built a light pen for the trs-80 back in the late 70’s. slow, sucky, but fun for a teen when the whole home-computer thing was still sci-fi to most people.
A popular accessory in the eight-bit microcomputing era, the light pen as a product dates back to 1950s and the Whirlwind real-time computer system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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It allows him to make engineering drawings with a light pen. A typical minicomputer costs about $20,000. 1965: An IC that cost $1000 in 1959 now costs less than $10.
Malcolm Lyall-Watson reports for Tomorrow's World on the computer interface of the future - a light pen that can draw directly onto a phosphorescent computer screen.
Samsung announced a handful of laptops before CES even started, but only one of the was really new: the Notebook 9 Pen. It isn't Samsung's first attempt at blending a laptop and a Galaxy Note, but ...