The first touchscreen used at CERN

This video, subtitled in French, is an extract of a film from 1975 about CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) control system. It shows the first use of a touchscreen invented by Bent Stumpe.
Bent Stumpe is talking about his touchscreen invention in an event on Friday 26 September "From Physics to Daily Life", available via webcast in English and French: cern.ch/webcast/. (His talk is scheduled from 14:40 - 15:00 CEST). For a full programme of the talks see: / 1530277660517523
Bent Stumpe is also one of the CERN researchers participating in "Pop Science" for European Researchers' Night 2014 on Friday 26 September. For more details see: / 1516967148546755 and www.pop-science...
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Video credits: Ronaldus Suykerbuyk, Paola Catapano and Corinne Pralavorio.
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[@STAG162]

I love watching these old type films, unmolested by technology and getting into the roots of what has brought us to where we are now. The 8-bit sounds, the use of a trackball/mouse, the brutal simplicity of the components used (without getting into the beam-related stuff) makes me appreciate the technology we have now even more.

[@Viktor007]

"unmolested by technology"?

[@harukatakahashi8822]

@@Viktor007 exactly xD

[@CERN]

Watch this #CERN60 video from 1975 of the first touchscreen used at CERN.
The inventor, Bent Stumpe, is talking today at 14:40 CEST as part of the event "From Physics to Daily Life", available now via webcast in English and French: cern.ch/webcast/. For a full programme of the talks see: plus.google.com/events/chaaunlk8fcr8hqjn0qlsebsn54
He is also one of the CERN researchers participating in "Pop Science" for European Researchers' Night 2014 tonight. For more details see: plus.google.com/events/clbnnrokssnpk994igmhscq103s and www.pop-science.eu

[@FrancSchiphorst]

***** Gerard van Schip check out the music :)

[@JD_Presents]

CERN, using touch screens before they were cool. :-)

[@3800S1]

wow! amazing for 1975.

[@leerufuslee6240]

love the old school synth sounds at begining!

[@GermanBiking]

That must've looked like alien technology back then.

[@solecipollari]

Beautiful

[@pablo_brianese]

Beautiful

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

Looks Star Trekish :)

[@0xC4FE]

Also seen later in (now old) gambling machines.

[@gxgfree4rhyme]

Hei, what is the name of the original film?
And what about the lovely song at the beginning, who composed it?

[@bogtheforest]

Mozart

[@nodvick]

0:52.. Subtitles is wrong..... my ocd blew up.

[@scunner3rd]

Look Around You

[@ghart56]

where is Waldo?

[@Abr3200]

Whats de openging song?

[@bozenamatkowska5172]

2020?

[@X1011]

RIP headphones users

[@goldenali]

Ja wow, damals haben die echt was geniales erfunden aber was erfinden die jetzt? Gar nichts mehr.

[@ghart56]

der weinerschnitcil

[@Haryel1987]

apple invented touch screens, this is fake

[@sandyjr5225]

This is not fake.. look up Wikipedia for touchscreen technology and you will find the names of Frank Beck (computer scientist, 1930-2020) and his colleague Bent Stumpe (electronic engineer, born 1938) to have first come up with the working model of the touchscreen.