17 Nov
2016
17 Nov
'16
6:08 p.m.
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 display." BTW he doesn't know who coined the word 'mouse'.
Of course Telefunken had already a mouse, a.k.a.
Rollkugel, in 1968.
:-D
BTW there will be a talk here with Rainer Mallebrein on Dec. 5, topic
"50 years computers with mouse". He also was a guest of our museum a few
years ago, and he gave us a deflection unit of the SIG 100 (the display
used with the RKS 100-86).
Christian