Comment by whartung

Also available on that machine was a…um…pointing pen peripheral.

Essentially it work like a light pen, but it used a mesh that was, somehow, affixed to the screen.

We had a Victor 9000 connected to a plotter along with very early AutoCAD. I also think we had another digitizer connected as well.

A very cool application was one of the engineers was using that along with AutoCAD to digitize aircraft from photocopies out of Jane’s books. He was using the data to calculate radar cross sections of the different airplanes.

Just a bunch of lines in the screen, he just wanted the points. Thought that was pretty clever.