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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by semi-extrinsic on Friday September 16, 2016 @05:42AM (#12512857)
The touchscreen was also invented at CERN, way back in 1973 for the SPS, as a solution to avoid having thousands of dedicated hardware buttons.

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1248908?ln=en

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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by Natanael_L on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:37AM (#12513556)
Which touchscreen tech? Because there were touchscreens in the 1960:s using a pressure sensor on each corner of the screen.
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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by semi-extrinsic on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:56AM (#12514883)
This was capacitive touch (i.e. like on your smartphone).
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