17 Nov
2018
17 Nov
'18
3:44 a.m.
On this day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the
patent for the computer mouse. It was a fugly thing: just a squarish box
with two wheels underneath it mounted at right-angles and a button.
Ergonomic it wasn't...
-- Dave
17 Nov
17 Nov
4:05 a.m.
On 16/11/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On this day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart
was awarded the
patent for the computer mouse.
Not really meaning to argue but
http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/90/48/ claims: "Doug
Engelbart's patent on the computer mouse, titled X-Y position
indicator for a display system (3,541,541), filed June 21, 1967 and
granted January 17, 1970 [...]". Link to the USPTO:
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=03541541
It was a fugly thing: just a squarish box with two
wheels underneath it mounted
at right-angles and a button. Ergonomic it wasn't...
Allegedly hand-carved but who carved it?
N.
-- Dave
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4:22 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Nemo wrote:
Don't worry; I love receiving corrections.
On this day in
1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the
patent for the computer mouse.
Not really meaning to argue but http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/90/48/
claims: "Doug
Engelbart's patent on the computer mouse, titled X-Y position indicator
for a display system (3,541,541), filed June 21, 1967 and granted
January 17, 1970 [...]". Link to the USPTO:
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=03541541
Hmmm... Right date, but wrong month; thanks. Not sure how that happened,
but now corrected.
-- Dave
7:45 a.m.
Oh, dear.
On 16/11/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Nemo wrote:
Don't worry; I love receiving corrections.
Apologies, Dave, my implicit joke fell flat. Their website is wrong;
you are correct (as seen on the tombstone of the actual patent).
N.
On this
day in 1970 computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was awarded the
patent for the computer mouse.
Not really meaning to argue but http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/90/48/
claims: "Doug
Engelbart's patent on the computer mouse, titled X-Y position indicator
for a display system (3,541,541), filed June 21, 1967 and granted
January 17, 1970 [...]". Link to the USPTO:
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=03541541
Hmmm... Right date, but wrong month; thanks. Not sure how that happened,
but now corrected.
-- Dave
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