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4th Jul 2013, 12:35 pm
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Octode
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Doug Engelbart dies. Inventor of mouse.
The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88.
Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse's widespread use. |
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4th Jul 2013, 1:43 pm
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Dekatron
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Re: Doug Engelbart dies. Inventor of mouse.
About a patent's lifetime before the mouse's widespread use, wasn't it?
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12th Aug 2013, 11:54 pm
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Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Derby, Derbyshire, UK.
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Re: Doug Engelbart dies. Inventor of mouse.
Figured an appropriate place to post this. Managed to get hold of an old original IBM PS/2 mouse. Didn't want to work at first, but a bit of a cleanup, plus some contact cleaner in its rather noisy rotary encoders (no IR encoding wheels in this one) has got it working beautifully.
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13th Aug 2013, 12:06 am
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Dekatron
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Location: Ramsbottom (Nr Bury) Lancs or Bexhill (Nr Hastings) Sussex.
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Re: Doug Engelbart dies. Inventor of mouse.
There was an obit in the Telegraph or Guardian that included a photo of the original wooden mock up as a sectional view ie a giant mouse!
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