27 Apr
2018
27 Apr
'18
12:18 p.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