The Mouse That Soared

A celebration of Douglas Engelbart's indomitable, ever-evolving pointing device on the 40th anniversary of its public debut.

By Harry McCracken  |  Posted at 3:42 pm on Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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These Mac Plus-era Apple Mice from the mid-1980s are primitive compared to today’s models. But it seems quite possible that if computer users had been confronted with a modern multiple-button cordless optical “ergonomic” mouse back then, they would have had no clue what to do with it. Mice had to be simple before they got complex. (Image from Wikipedia.)

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2 Comments For This Post

  1. thehumanyawn Says:

    Happy Birthday

  2. Juliet Says:

    About the “Apple’s first iMac”… Maybe you never asked people with small hands like me, until that one came by, béziers were a no no for me… that little round beauty rolled me to a world of precise tracing and I love it! I still have two… a blue and a red :)

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