I’ll never forget the first mechanical pencil I tried to use. It was a gnarly mustard-yellow, and I had to twist the conical tip to advance the lead.

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Such pencils, though, had thick leads, and slack machining tolerances meant that there was a disturbing amount of play in their tips. They were not yet reliable tools for serious writing or drawing.

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Here’s our first look at the MSI Pen 2, a new stylus from MSI that can function as both a graphite pencil and a haptic stylus. It ships with the new Creator Z17 HX Studio, a high-powered gaming ...

Indeed, in 1965 NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Tycam Engineering Manufacturing in Houston at $128.89 apiece: $4,382.50 in total. ... The tips could flake or break off, ...