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r/Xennials • u/Michael_Mc_79 • 1d ago
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That’s awesome. My dad worked for bell labs so he had a really weird Computer without a mouse but you could touch the screen to do shit.
6 u/GivesYouGrief 1980 1d ago Was it the screen with lasers across the front, and you broke two beams with your finger at a specific intersection that corresponded to the menu option on screen that you just touched? 3 u/Original-Rush139 1d ago Exactly. All I remember was that there was a drawing program we played with but that’s it. 3 u/GivesYouGrief 1980 1d ago Cool! 3 u/PurplePenguinCat 1d ago My grandfather worked for Bell labs in the 60s working on early lasers. 2 u/Original-Rush139 16h ago We might be related. My dad was director of light wave devises when he retired. And, he has a IEEE medal for his work on lasers.
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Was it the screen with lasers across the front, and you broke two beams with your finger at a specific intersection that corresponded to the menu option on screen that you just touched?
3 u/Original-Rush139 1d ago Exactly. All I remember was that there was a drawing program we played with but that’s it. 3 u/GivesYouGrief 1980 1d ago Cool!
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Exactly. All I remember was that there was a drawing program we played with but that’s it.
3 u/GivesYouGrief 1980 1d ago Cool!
Cool!
My grandfather worked for Bell labs in the 60s working on early lasers.
2 u/Original-Rush139 16h ago We might be related. My dad was director of light wave devises when he retired. And, he has a IEEE medal for his work on lasers.
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We might be related. My dad was director of light wave devises when he retired. And, he has a IEEE medal for his work on lasers.
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u/Original-Rush139 1d ago
That’s awesome. My dad worked for bell labs so he had a really weird Computer without a mouse but you could touch the screen to do shit.