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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:22:33 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811170919320.60610@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzyiu9_cmwMU=vryu6xo37oe46m8iZFe3W4CorJbWWo=8w@mail.gmail.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-16 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-16 21:44 dave
2018-11-16 22:05 ` cym224
2018-11-16 22:22   ` dave [this message]
2018-11-17  1:45     ` cym224
2019-11-16 21:01 dave

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