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Touch screen history needs looking at - SAGE (1958) | 354 comments | Create New Account
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Touch screen history needs looking at
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 10:08 AM EDT
My university department was using large touch screens for HCI research at least
as far back as 2002.

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Touch screen history on plato IV in 1972
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 03:19 PM EDT
Wikipedia says that the Plato IV had a touch screen.
And this link from npr give a touchscreen timeline showing the first being in 1965.

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History of touchscreens and as prior art, [again]
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 03:51 PM EDT
I did some preliminary research on this in 2010

"History of touchscreens and as prior art", and published here on Groklaw.

Maybe it could be a starting point for you.

/IMANAL


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HP-150
Authored by: xtifr on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 05:21 PM EDT

The HP-150 was a DOS-compatible PC released in 1983 which came with a touchscreen. Wikipedia has details. It wasn't much of a commercial success, but it predates Linux. In fact, the free, cross-platform editor that Linus originally used to create the first version of Linux had optional support for the HP-150's touchscreen. (I still have the source to that editor, which is how I was able to track it down.)

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  • Not HP-150 - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 06:01 PM EDT
    • Not HP-150 - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 06:10 AM EDT
Touch screen history needs looking at - SAGE (1958)
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 02:46 AM EDT

Let's move the start date back from 1965/7 to the 1950's. Radar systems had a tethered form of touch-screen technology that allowed one to select a particular "blip" (radar return). I've put a couple of Wikipedia links below to a well known example from 1958.

Image :  "SAGE console"

Article :  "Semi-Automatic Ground Environment"

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