27 Apr
2018
27 Apr
'18
9:57 a.m.
Blimey, but I nearly missed this one (I was sick in bed).
On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm
struggling to find more information about it; wasn't there a photo of a
big boxy device?
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27 Apr
27 Apr
10:18 a.m.
On Fr, 2018-04-27 at 19:57 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm
struggling to find more information about it; wasn't there a photo of a
big boxy device?
This seems to be a date which is much too late. Even Smalltalk-72
on the Alto used a pointing device. In his book "Smalltalk-80:
Bits of History, Words of Advice" Glenn Krasner wrote:
"Smalltalk-72 was ported to the Alto [...] Soon many interesting
and useful applications were written, including a mouse-driven
program editor [...]"
Hellwig
10:58 a.m.
Absolutely Hellwig. Please take a look at the early DARPA/Internet RFCs from ~1969 and
they make reference to a mouse. I will try to dig it up.
BIll Corcoran
On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:38 AM, Hellwig Geisse
<hellwig.geisse(a)mni.thm.de> wrote:
On Fr, 2018-04-27 at 19:57 +1000, Dave Horsfall
wrote:
On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm
struggling to find more information about it; wasn't there a photo of a
big boxy device?
This seems to be a date which is much too late. Even Smalltalk-72
on the Alto used a pointing device. In his book "Smalltalk-80:
Bits of History, Words of Advice" Glenn Krasner wrote:
"Smalltalk-72 was ported to the Alto [...] Soon many interesting
and useful applications were written, including a mouse-driven
program editor [...]"
Hellwig 
11:13 a.m.
On 2018-Apr-27 19:57:51 +1000, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox
PARC introduced
Well, the company was Xerox. PARC was their research facility.
something called a "mouse" (mostly because it
has a tail), but I'm
Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the mouse in his "Mother of All Demos" on
1968-Dec-09 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY). According
to WP, he applied for the patent in 1967 so I'm not sure when he invented it.
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Peter Jeremy
12:13 p.m.
On Apr 27,
2018, at 4:13 AM, Peter Jeremy <peter(a)rulingia.com> wrote:
On 2018-Apr-27 19:57:51 +1000, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
Well, the company was Xerox. PARC was their research facility.
something called a "mouse" (mostly
because it has a tail), but I'm
Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the mouse in his "Mother of All Demos" on
1968-Dec-09 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY). According
to WP, he applied for the patent in 1967 so I'm not sure when he invented it.
--
Peter Jeremy 
2:47 p.m.
Interesting Typography on the demo film. Never seen capital letters identified with
overscores.
PARC is well known for contributing things to the public that Xerox never quite got into a
real product. I always loved going to meetings there just to see what they had come up
with this time.
6:23 p.m.
On 4/27/18, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
PARC is well known for contributing things to the public that Xerox never
quite got into a real product. I always loved going to meetings there just
to see what they had come up with this time.
For a while Gordon Bell used to hand out the Xerox PARC Award to the
R&D project that simultaneously did the most to advance the state of
the art and contributed the least to DEC's bottom line.
-Paul W.
12:48 p.m.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
|Blimey, but I nearly missed this one (I was sick in bed).
|
|On this day in 1981, some little company called Xerox PARC introduced
|something called a "mouse" (mostly because it has a tail), but I'm
|struggling to find more information about it; wasn't there a photo of a
|big boxy device?
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28358/1/cernbooks2_12-00
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
9 p.m.
No offence, but anything that makes me move my fingers from my keyboard,
be it a mouse, a touchpad etc., takes a menacing look from me.
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caóc
11:06 p.m.
Sorry, folks; thanks for all the feedback (ouch!) and I'll check my
references better next time (along with my medications, as I have a
suspect pros gl.)
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