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The HP Pavilion dv1000 series was a series of "thin and light" widescreen laptops featuring a black and silver finish. They were marketed towards home and small business users. The laptops measured 13.1 in (330 mm) wide, 1.2 in (30 mm) deep, 9 in (230 mm) thick, and weighs 5.26 lb (2.39 kg).
A Dell Latitude E4310 laptop with a pointing stick (upper middle) and a touchpad (bottom). They were commonly featured together on Dell Latitude laptops, beginning in the late 1990s. The pointing stick can be used in ultra-compact netbooks [13] where there would be no place for a touchpad.
Possible elements of a video game joystick: 1. stick, 2. base, 3. trigger, 4. extra buttons, 5. autofire switch, 6. throttle, 7. hat switch (POV hat), 8. suction cups. A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.
With the exception of laptops—for which companies released joystick adapters for parallel or serial ports, which needed custom software drivers [16] —through the early 1990s, the game port was universally supported on sound cards, [12] and increasingly became built-in features as motherboards added sound support of their own. This remained ...
A light pen is a device similar to a touch screen, but uses a special light-sensitive pen instead of the finger, which allows for more accurate screen input. As the tip of the light pen makes contact with the screen, it sends a signal back to the computer containing the coordinates of the pixels at that point.
HP Pavilion is a line of consumer-oriented personal computers originally produced by Hewlett-Packard and later by its successor, HP Inc. Introduced in 1995, HP has used the name for both desktops and laptops for home and home office use.
The HP Pavilion dv9000 series was succeeded by the larger 17.3" dv7 series in July 2008, which was supplemented by the smaller 15.6" dv6 series in 2009. Sales for the dv9000 series (as well as the related dv2000 and dv6000 series) stopped sometime in mid-to-late September 2008, with the remaining stock of laptops being cleared out afterwards.
The first detection method, used by the NES Zapper, involves drawing each target sequentially in white light after the screen blacks out. The computer knows that if the diode detects light as it is drawing a square (or after the screen refreshes), then that is the target at which the gun is pointed.