From: wlc@jctaylor.com (William Corcoran)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:58:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <71628EA8-EAC4-43FF-98CF-EA1B72635B8B@jctaylor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1524824327.2138.71.camel@mni.thm.de>
Absolutely Hellwig. Please take a look at the early DARPA/Internet RFCs from ~1969 and they make reference to a mouse. I will try to dig it up.
BIll Corcoran
> On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:38 AM, Hellwig Geisse <hellwig.geisse at mni.thm.de> wrote:
>
>> 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 10:58 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
2018-04-27 10:58 ` William Corcoran [this message]
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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