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Light Pen

Light pens provide a very precise pointing capability directly on the screen.

First Light Pen

This handmade prototype of a "light gun" in 1952 was part of the Whirlwind Project at MIT. Subsequent devices were used to hone in on suspicious blips on the CRT in the U.S. air defense system (see Whirlwind and SAGE). (Image courtesy of The MITRE Corporation Archives.)

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