It’s also the father of computer gaming: in 1962, a whole decade before Pong turned videogames into a phenomenon, a little game called Spacewar! became the PDP-1’s star attraction. The cusp of ...

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.

Keywords computer graphics, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Graphic 1, circuit design, electronic light pen, programming, visual representation, communication satellites, sound waves, artistic ...

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 ...