*rimshot*
Jon
From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brin-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Apple invented the mouse Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:32:38 +0000
...as we knew it for nearly two decades. The universal design of a rubber-coated ball-bearing, orthogonal pinch rollers, and optical disk encoders was developed by Apple for the Lisa and Macintosh projects and has little resemblance to Englebart's mouse, or the Xerox mouse.
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/marapr/features/ mouse.html
Or (for more detail)
http://library.stanford.edu/mac/mouse.html
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time. Just look at Windows.
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