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Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse Dies

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by ggood, Jul 4, 2013.

  1. ggood

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    i could have sworn, watching a special on steve jobs, some guy at apple claimed to have made the first mouse out an empty tissue roll, and scotch tape or something.
     
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    I saw that too, but they didn't invent it, they just worked out a particular design for manufacture. It was part of what Jobs saw demoed at Xerox. May have been the first mass produced mouse, though.
     
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    thanks, i was beginning to think i halucinated. oh, visions of the sixties!:eek:
     
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    Somebody must have kicked his cable. (That's usually why my mouse dies).
     
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    Surprising Apple hasn't chimed in to dispute the invention claim in the guy's obituary.
     
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    it is all about marketing, but someone has to invent. i suppose the engineer's all work in anonymity these days.
     
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    It was probably ever thus. Someone has to recognize the value of what they do . Xerox is more famous now for what they failed to do than what they actually did. Jobs got it, xerox didn't.
     
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    Xerox PARC was an incubator. Apple is a kill factory.
     
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