From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 05:13:31 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse! In-Reply-To: <20180427111338.GA78877@server.rulingia.com> References: <20180427111338.GA78877@server.rulingia.com> Message-ID: <10515862-3E7B-4D22-9147-994512983FF1@bitblocks.com> >> On Apr 27, 2018, at 4:13 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >> On 2018-Apr-27 19:57:51 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced > > Well, the company was Xerox. PARC was their research facility. > >> something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm > > Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the mouse in his "Mother of All Demos" on > 1968-Dec-09 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY). According > to WP, he applied for the patent in 1967 so I'm not sure when he invented it. > > -- > Peter Jeremy According to https://www.macworld.com/article/1137400/input-devices/mouse40.html Bill English designed the first mouse in 1963 based on Engelbart’s sketches. By 1982 we had access to a Mouse Systems’ mouse. I played with it but gave up as it was no fun using it with a character only 80x25 screen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: