From: hellwig.geisse@mni.thm.de (Hellwig Geisse)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:18:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1524824327.2138.71.camel@mni.thm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1804271949190.62425@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Fr, 2018-04-27 at 19:57 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
> something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm
> struggling to find more information about it; wasn't there a photo of a
> big boxy device?
>
This seems to be a date which is much too late. Even Smalltalk-72
on the Alto used a pointing device. In his book "Smalltalk-80:
Bits of History, Words of Advice" Glenn Krasner wrote:
"Smalltalk-72 was ported to the Alto [...] Soon many interesting
and useful applications were written, including a mouse-driven
program editor [...]"
Hellwig
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-27 9:57 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 10:18 ` Hellwig Geisse [this message]
2018-04-27 10:58 ` William Corcoran
2018-04-27 11:13 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-27 12:13 ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-27 14:47 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-04-27 18:23 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-27 12:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-04-27 21:00 ` Cág
2018-04-27 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall
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