Light pens?

[Curt at Atari Museum]

I've got a crate of them (cream colored and all black)...


Its finding a boxed, mint condition Lightpen softwae package for the 
CX-70 cream colored light pen that is truly worth its weight in gold.


Curt



Steven Canning wrote:

>I have an Honest-to-God Atari made light pen in my hand. It has a DB-9
>female connector made to be plugged into an Atari 400, 600, 800, etc. front
>panel "I/O port"  ( used for more than just "joysticks" ). I would be
>willing to part with it for only  "half" of a song...
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>Best regards, Steven C. ( Southern California, USA )
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>>>I have two IBM Model 5150s (one original rev, and a rev b).  I think
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>>>explored every single inch of the hardware except for light pens -- I
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>>>really like to experiment with one and write some software that
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>interfaces with
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>>>one.  Does anyone know:
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>>>1. What light pens were available and for which PCs?  (I also own Tandy
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>1000s,
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>>>and they have "light pen" ports too)
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>>I can tell you that although the MDA card has a light pen connector, the
>>light pen certainly doesn't work on the 5151 monitor (far too long a
>>persistance). It does work on most CGA monitors
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>>As regards machines that could take light pens. The Sirius could (or at
>>least there's a light pin input on the user port header). There's a light
>>pen signal on the analogue port of the BBC micro (I have the Torch
>>lightpen for the Beeb, it's not exactly simple!). The FTS88 could take
>>one as an option too (there's a header on the diagnostic LED board.
>>Obviously the GT40 does. As does the Vectrex. And I think the Atari 400,
>>800, etc. The Gemini has a lightpen socket (which happens to be the same
>>pinout as the connector between the Torch lightpen and its interfae box,
>>hmmm). The HH Tiger has a lightpen connector
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>>>2. Does anyone have any light pens for sale or trade?
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>>No, but it's not hard to make one if you don't require high resolution.
>>There was at least one design in 80-micro for the Tandy 1000. There were
>>plenty of designs for the Beeb (most of them use the Honeywell 'Sweet
>>Spot' devices). Thoese were not as good as the Torch one I mentioned, but
>>they do work.
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>>-tony
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