* [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
@ 2018-11-16 21:44 dave
2018-11-16 22:05 ` cym224
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From: dave @ 2018-11-16 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
On this day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the
patent for the computer mouse. It was a fugly thing: just a squarish box
with two wheels underneath it mounted at right-angles and a button.
Ergonomic it wasn't...
-- Dave
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* [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
2018-11-16 21:44 [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse! dave
@ 2018-11-16 22:05 ` cym224
2018-11-16 22:22 ` dave
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From: cym224 @ 2018-11-16 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 16/11/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On this day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the
> patent for the computer mouse.
Not really meaning to argue but
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
> It was a fugly thing: just a squarish box with two wheels underneath it mounted
> at right-angles and a button. Ergonomic it wasn't...
Allegedly hand-carved but who carved it?
N.
>
> -- Dave
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* [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
2018-11-16 22:05 ` cym224
@ 2018-11-16 22:22 ` dave
2018-11-17 1:45 ` cym224
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From: dave @ 2018-11-16 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
-- Dave
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* [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
2018-11-16 22:22 ` dave
@ 2018-11-17 1:45 ` cym224
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From: cym224 @ 2018-11-17 1:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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* [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
@ 2019-11-16 21:01 dave
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From: dave @ 2019-11-16 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
On this day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the patent
for the computer mouse. It was a fugly thing: just a squarish box with two
wheels underneath it mounted at right-angles and a button. Ergonomic it
wasn't...
-- Dave
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