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light pen

NOUN
pointer for computer display
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Do you prefer the feel of a light pen or a heavy one?

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

By contrast, the picture telephone and a demonstration of a light pen captured my imagination.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021

With Sketchpad, users created graphics with a light pen and could then manipulate lengths and angles in their designs.

From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2012

Then, for example, the computer's taped voice asks the student to touch the word ran on the screen with a "light pen."

From Time Magazine Archive

At least a million men—that is no exaggeration of a light pen, but the sober and actual truth—were advancing steadily upon the capital last Tuesday.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various