Question: | The mouse, it's the big thing everybody knows about, but it's not the whole story is it? |
Answer: | No, it's like we built the first car and this is the windwhield wiper... |
Notes: |
Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1963-64 as part of an experiment to find better ways to point and click on a display screen. This was fashioned downstairs in the shop at SRI, with the casing carved out of wood, with just 1 button - that's all there was room for. Subsequent model of the mouse very soon had three buttons; Engelbart would have gone for more buttons but there was only room for three of the then-available micro-switches. The patent he got for the mouse 1963-64 was called: "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System". Why didn't he get rich from the mouse? It didn't achieve widespread use until the patent expired. The first mouse |
Keywords: | Mouse, windshield wiper, |
Related Links: | None. |
Format: |
.au 11.127 khz 16 bits mono with µLaw 2;1 compression. Originally recorded on an Apple Macintosh PowerBook
using a SONY ECM-T145 condenser microphone and Adobe
Premiere audio/video editing software. The original recording
was saved as a QuickTime file at 22 mhz, 16 bits with
no compression. |
Recorded: | Session 2. 7/25/2000. Interviewed at Dr. Engelbarts residence in Atherton, California, late in the evening by Frode Hegland @. |