On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:53:33PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Noel (who was an early Wikipediast, until the Marching Morons arrived)
I hear Venus is very nice this time of year.
mcl
> From: Fred Cisin
> Who has some time to go clean up Wikipedia?
I'll get right on it ... as soon as I finish bailing out the ocean with a
spoon.
Wikipedia - proof that if you give a million monkeys keyboards, they can
create something that vaguely resembles an encyclopaedia.
No
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>
> ...
> I think arguing "priority" is a pointless exercise. In the real world, the
> mouse came to the fore with the Xerox Alto, where its use was inspired by
> Engelbart, not Telefunken, and it spread to Lisp Machines, Lisa and Macintosh
>
From: jos
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:38 AM
> On 17.11.2016 17:18, Murray McCullough wrote:
>> Today in the age of pointer-graphics, ie., using a mouse, is a very
>> important day: Nov. 17, 1970, Doug Engelbart, of SRI, Menlo Park, CA,
>> invented the mouse or granted a patent for "X-Ypos
>
> Also, the Englebart mouse is two potentiometers mounted at a right angle
> so it only worked in a confined space.
As an aside, didn't the much later Radio Shack mouse for the CoCo work like
that? It plugged into the joystick port, and AFAIK needed no special software.
-tony
On 11/17/16 10:26 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Who has some time to go clean up Wikipedia?
>
No one
Also, the Englebart mouse is two potentiometers mounted at a right angle
so it only worked in a confined space.
I need to dig my vaccuum-formed case SRI mouse and keyset out and take pictures
of t
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, jos wrote:
Of course Telefunken had already a mouse, a.k.a. Rollkugel, in 1968.
and MARKETED it!
"Invention" and "FIRST" are always on shaky ground in any real historical
research.
Telefunken didn't consider it important enough to patent. Most REAL
inventors consider th
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, jos wrote:
On 17.11.2016 17:18, Murray McCullough wrote:
Today in the age of pointer-graphics, ie., using a mouse, is a very
important day: Nov. 17, 1970, Doug Engelbart, of SRI, Menlo Park, CA,
invented the mouse or granted a patent for "X-Yposition indictator for
a grahics
On 17.11.2016 17:18, Murray McCullough wrote:
Today in the age of pointer-graphics, ie., using a mouse, is a very
important day: Nov. 17, 1970, Doug Engelbart, of SRI, Menlo Park, CA,
invented the mouse or granted a patent for "X-Yposition indictator for
a grahics display." BTW he doesn't know wh
Today in the age of pointer-graphics, ie., using a mouse, is a very
important day: Nov. 17, 1970, Doug Engelbart, of SRI, Menlo Park, CA,
invented the mouse or granted a patent for "X-Yposition indictator for
a grahics display." BTW he doesn't know who coined the word 'mouse'.
Happy computing!
Mu
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