A silver aluminum light pen with a black plastic tip pressed against the glass screen of a Tandy CM-II CRT display. Beneath the tip is a small cyan arrow cursor, above a large magenta circle. Inset in the circle is an outline of the text "hello" trailing off the right side of the screen. The blue overscan color is seen in the lower left, with a few cyan lines.

Using a Warp Speed light pen in "PC Illustrator 3" by Computer Graphics Group, Inc, on a Tandy 1000, with a CM-II monitor (in 2026)

#retrocomputing #tandy1000 #lightpen

A sepia-toned graphic titled “Snapshot Saturday” styled like a strip of film. Beneath the title, small text reads: “Using a lightpen to select text on a screen in 1969.” The central black-and-white photograph shows a hand holding a light pen and pointing at lines of text displayed on a CRT screen. The screen contains dense technical text and code. A credit line below the photo reads: “Gregory Lloyd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons,” followed by a source URL. The bottom right corner of the image displays the text “vintage.computer.”

Snapshot Saturday: In 1969, selecting text meant pointing directly at the screen with a light pen. Long before mice and touchscreens, interaction with computers was already becoming visual, direct, and surprisingly intuitive. #Retro #Lightpen #VintageComputing #VintageComputer

Three Vectrex minis, showing it off in various angles and various games.

The Vectrex is coming back… in pog form!

Well, in mini form! It's true! Your chance to play Vectrex games as if you were twice as large as you are now is coming soon.

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#Blaugust #Blaugust2025 #Vectrex #LightPen #MailPlane #MajorTom #MelodyMaster #spike #VectrexMini

paint: a timeline — Kristen Roos This timeline is the result of researching the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand manipulation (versus plotter drawn) drawing and painting…

Timeline: the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand drawing and painting: the mouse, light pen, and drawing tablet.

h/t @codepo8.bsky.social #DigitalArt #TechHistory #mouse #LightPen #DrawingTablet #tools

#retrohardware, #lightpen, #datapenmicrotechnology
Memories of my teens, my software and drawings, Mum's hand.

#quincyjones and #herbiehancock just hanging out in a room full of synthesizer technology

#rhodeschroma #fairlight #synthsky #skysynth #lightpen

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Verwendung eines Lichtgriffel an einem Computerterminal Zeitpunkt der Mondlandung Jahr Apollo Bild Gregory Lloyd CC2.0

SMT Frage
Was ist ein Lichtstift

-> Lichtstift-Interface Frage ?

Mögliche Antwort
Eine Alternative Eingabemöglichkeit um schnell in bestimmte Bereiche eines Screen springen/ gehen zu könnten

AUSWAHL Prinzip

Symbolbild
#LightPen an einer Tube

Später -> #Touch SELECT Prinzip 2000er Jahre

...if only more stores did this...

#LightPen #Atari #Atari8Bit #Commodore #C64 #JoystickPort #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

[1983] The Complete Home Book
By Pamela Ferguson

#thomson #TO7 #8bit #retrocomputer #retrogaming #videogames #LightPen #80s #90s #Geek #PlanInformatiquePourTous #IPT #Sicob1982 #Motorola #MC6809 #1MHz #FrenchSchools #ComputingForAllplan

Little fun with procreate lightpen. #Horse, #Light, #Luminance, #LightPen, #Drawing, #DigitalDrawing, #DigitalArt, #iPadDrawing, #Art, #Illustration, #HobbyArtist, #ProCreate, #ApplePencil,

Paint-N-Sketch Level II

#LightPen #Commodore #C64 #Apple #retrocomputer #retrogaming #videogames #Compo #Graphic #GFX #8bit #80s #90s #Geek

I Swear: This is the LAST Light Pen I buy ...this year. Turbo Charged even! lol

#Atari #Atari8Bit #C64 #LightPen #LightGun #JoystickPort #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

Another Light Pen. Another example of my obsession with LIGHTS PENS! .....McPen 😂

#McPen #Atari #Atari8Bit #C64 #LightPen #LightGun #JoystickPort #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd