faradayp@project4.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk (Peter Faraday) (04/25/91)
I was wondering if any of you could tell me who invented the 'Mouse'. I seemto remember reading somewhere that it was Doug Engelbart (Stanford Uni), but I might be wrong. Any how any mouse related trivia would be useful.... I have a THESIS to write! Peter Faraday University of Manchester 'The Home of the computer'
cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr26.065301.12230@milton.u.washington.edu> Faraday writes: >I was wondering if any of you could tell me who invented the 'Mouse'. >I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was Doug Engelbart You remember right. The relevant paper is DC Engelbart & WK English, "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect", Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1968, pp 395-410. Engelbart invented the mouse in about 1965. >Peter Faraday @ 'The Home of the computer' I thought Zuse (Germany somewhere) and Atanasoff (Iowa) were the "fathers of the computer", hence Germany and Iowa are "Homes of the Computer" ;-)} -- Chris Shaw University of Alberta cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca Now with new, minty Internet flavour! CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !
nagle@uunet.UU.NET (John Nagle) (05/02/91)
The mouse was a latecomer as a pointing device. The first pointing
device developed for computer input was a gun. SAGE air-defense
consoles of the 1950s used large metal light-guns to indicate targets.
One can be seen in the Computer Museum in Boston.
John Nagle