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There were touch screens even before 1984.

There touch pad accessories including transparent ones to put over the screen for drawing applications for many popular 80s computers including the Atari. These were good enough for CAD and drawing applications.

Touch POS were also available in the late 80s including virtual signature terminals.

The Casio PB-1000 was a micro computer with a touch screen and it was released in 87.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_PB-1000

It was relatively cheap and mass produced Apple could've released something very close to their prototype pre 1990 for sure.



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