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IBM 709 1961

Roger Fulton (at left) and George Michael, project leader, watch the Eyeball project CRT on the IBM 709. The Eyeball, an input device for feeding graphic material (handwriting, a map of the stars, a photograph of particle interactions in a bubble chamber, for example) directly into a digital computer, was developed by the Theoretical Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the 1960s.

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