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minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 months agoIt’s not the first time someone comes up with the next great thing that ends up being a user interface disaster. Light pens (w/ link for the younger crowd) come to mind.
minus-squareodelik@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoOoof. I remeber using light pens in the 80s at a dumb terminal at my local library to find books. It was painful…
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoOh boy, forgot about those. Every school library used one to read a barcode.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoYou’re probably thinking of something else. You can’t read anything with those
minus-squaresmeenz@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoThey’re thinking of optical pens https://www.datalogic.com/eng/media-center/news/the-first-optical-pen-nd2-8116.html https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/ja6mc0/does_anybody_remember_these_barcode_readers_at/
It’s not the first time someone comes up with the next great thing that ends up being a user interface disaster. Light pens (w/ link for the younger crowd) come to mind.
Ooof. I remeber using light pens in the 80s at a dumb terminal at my local library to find books. It was painful…
Oh boy, forgot about those. Every school library used one to read a barcode.
You’re probably thinking of something else. You can’t read anything with those
They’re thinking of optical pens
https://www.datalogic.com/eng/media-center/news/the-first-optical-pen-nd2-8116.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/ja6mc0/does_anybody_remember_these_barcode_readers_at/