From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:45:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzxkx5eWCthBSNLPcVWgpEy_v92oanJF2c6uuVpoExK=_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811170919320.60610@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Oh, dear.
On 16/11/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Nemo wrote:
>
>>> On this day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the
>>> patent for the computer mouse.
>>
>> Not really meaning to argue but
>
> Don't worry; I love receiving corrections.
>
>> http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/90/48/ claims: "Doug
>> Engelbart's patent on the computer mouse, titled X-Y position indicator
>> for a display system (3,541,541), filed June 21, 1967 and granted
>> January 17, 1970 [...]". Link to the USPTO:
>> http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=03541541
>
> Hmmm... Right date, but wrong month; thanks. Not sure how that happened,
> but now corrected.
Apologies, Dave, my implicit joke fell flat. Their website is wrong;
you are correct (as seen on the tombstone of the actual patent).
N.
>
> -- Dave
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2018-11-16 21:44 dave
2018-11-16 22:05 ` cym224
2018-11-16 22:22 ` dave
2018-11-17 1:45 ` cym224 [this message]
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