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Computer Mice And Their Origin In Our Telephones
[04 Sep 2010 | views: 1750]
Like so many developments that we take for common on our computers the humble mouse had its origins in the innovative work done for more than two decades at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The PARC mouse had two rollers for horizontal and vertical motion and a single button. The deucedly boxy shape was favored by many of developers at PARC and remarkably has persisted through many mouse (or mice) incarnations.
Firstly the Microsoft mouse design has had major impacts in the mice in... » Read more
