Tag: mouse
Tech Time Warp: Microsoft introduces the “green-eyed” mouse
Tech Time Warp: Microsoft introduces the “green-eyed” mouse
Here’s a bit of trivia for your next cocktail party: The instruction manual for the first Microsoft Mouse (introduced May 2, 1983, as Microsoft’s first foray into peripherals) was a hefty 120-plus pages long. Yes, more than 120 pages. That...
Tech Time Warp: If you give a mouse a patent
Tech Time Warp: If you give a mouse a patent
On Nov. 17, 1970, U.S. Patent 3541541A was issued to Douglas Engelbart, a Stanford University researcher. The patent was for the “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System,” which — if you’re either skilled in tech speak or a computer...
