From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wlc@jctaylor.com (William Corcoran) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:58:15 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse! In-Reply-To: <1524824327.2138.71.camel@mni.thm.de> References: , <1524824327.2138.71.camel@mni.thm.de> Message-ID: <71628EA8-EAC4-43FF-98CF-EA1B72635B8B@jctaylor.com> 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 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