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.)
By Harry McCracken | Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 3:42 pm
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