21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
5:40 a.m.
Having typed that subject line I'm changing my attitude slightly:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ONE-OF-FEW-REMAINING-1ST-AVAILABLE-MICE-IN-THE-WO…
Overblown salesmanship aside, technically I suppose they're right. Even
given Doug Engelbart's introduction in 1964 the mouse wasn't a massive
commercial success by 1983 was it.
Still a lot of cash though, and when I bought my Lisa in 2005 it came with
that rodent so I'll put it alongside my little collection of VSXXX
workstation mice as WOW*R at RE*L@@K* items :)
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adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
21 Dec
21 Dec
5:55 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs at gmail.com>
wrote:
Having typed that subject line I'm changing my
attitude slightly:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ONE-OF-FEW-REMAINING-1ST-AVAILABLE-MICE-IN-THE-WO…
Overblown salesmanship aside, technically I suppose they're right. Even
given Doug Engelbart's introduction in 1964 the mouse wasn't a massive
commercial success by 1983 was it.
Still a lot of cash though, and when I bought my Lisa in 2005 it came with
that rodent so I'll put it alongside my little collection of VSXXX
workstation mice as WOW*R at RE*L@@K* items :)
--
Believe it or not a Lisa mouse simlar to this has sold for even more.
Crazy.
--
Bill
8:40 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Jules Richardson <
jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/21/2015 07:40 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
Two words: Xerox Alto. It was never a "massive commercial success" but
then, it wasn't designed or intended to be such. But it incorporated a
mouse ten years before the Lisa's introduction. There were things you just
couldn't do without the mouse, either (for example, using the Neptune file
manager, or the all-important task of playing pool). -- Ian
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Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
Having typed that subject line I'm changing
my attitude slightly
Can someone ask if those are Steve Jobs' dead skin cells still stuck to
the front pads?
12:54 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs at gmail.com>
wrote:
Having typed that subject line I'm changing my
attitude slightly:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ONE-OF-FEW-REMAINING-1ST-AVAILABLE-MICE-IN-THE-WO…
That is an odd connector. I haven't seen the original Lisa mouse in an
auction before. I always seem to see the Mac style instead.
2:39 p.m.
On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:54 , Geoffrey Oltmans
<oltmansg at gmail.com> wrote:
That is an odd connector.
It's compatible with an ordinary 9-pin D-sub, but with a shell that latches onto ramps
on the mating connector. Squeezing the shell releases the latch.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
5:04 p.m.
The Xerox wasn't a single button mouse.
That was patented by Jef Raskin while at Apple.
Dwight
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On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:54 , Geoffrey Oltmans
<oltmansg at gmail.com> wrote:
That is an odd connector.
It's compatible with an ordinary 9-pin D-sub, but with a shell that latches onto ramps
on the mating connector. Squeezing the shell releases the latch.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
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