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From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Old Atari Trivia
Message-ID: <1867@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 91 18:58:36 GMT
References: <2970002@hpsmo100.rose.hp.com> <1991May30.190652.5283@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1991May30.190652.5283@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> fseipel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Frank E Seipel) writes:
>
> Some interesting trivia, but I have one correction: Atari finally DID
>release a lightpen (I used to have one). I think they did so in '84. It
>came with its own special cartridge drawing program, which was really
>quite nice (IMHO). I was impressed at the time that they hadn't merely
>repackaged Koala Paint, as they had done for the Atari Touch Tablet.

The software was done by Steve Gibson, one of the truly visionary pioneers
of the personal computer era.  The drawing program was at the time considered
to have on of the most advanced user interfaces yet seen for any PC.
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