Re: Novopen 3 Army Home › Forums › Living with type one › Novopen 3 Army › Re: Novopen 3 Army 14 February, 2011 at 11:16 pm #12215 lizzParticipant I had the lovely metal Novopen, and was lucky enough to be moved onto a pump before I had to change it for a ghastly plastic version. I started using it when it first came out in the early 1980s. Along with one of the first blood testing machines.