I had a hunch buying this floppy off eBay, and it paid off. The number rather dangerously scrawled on there with ball point is indeed a new driver version, previously unknown.
Version 3.5 Warp Speed light pen drivers and version 3.5 of their CONTROLLER shell.
The copyright date is also 1989, which is about when I figured they went kaput. Interestingly the driver does not say warp speed anymore, it says "Future Tech Software" and credits a Frank Taylor.
Clean flux dump.
In other news, an entire new light pen manufacturer has appeared!
A new challenger approaches!
I got the kick to go look and see who had registered lightpen.com.
And lo and behold, we find
Design Technology Inc.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010405003907/http://lightpen.com/
They must have been one of FTG's main competitors. They have ISA light pen interfaces I get to buy now too!
I was able to snarf all their drivers out of the wayback machine.
Their DT360 card seems to be the only thing that shows up on eBay, from anywhere from $35-$800. So clearly people have no idea wtf they are even selling.
Of course one has the original sync cable, and it's the $800 one.
this is their very first website, all the way back in March 1997. I would have just turned 18, in my senior year of high school.
This whole thing is a server side image map. That was a fun variety of image that you clicked on and the web server had to figure out what part of it you clicked. These kind of sucked because there was no natural indication of what you could click on, 0 accessibility as a result, and the buttons were just part of the image so not very satisfying to click on.
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