From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:45:07 -0500
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
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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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