[COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!

[COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!

[dave]

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

[COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!

[dave]

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

[COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!

[cym224]

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.

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[COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!

[dave]

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

[COFF] Happy birthday, computer mouse!

[cym224]

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.

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