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The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Englebart during the 60's and was patented on November 17, 1970. While creating the mouse, Douglas was working at the Stanford Research Institute, a think tank sponsored by Stanford University, and originally referred to the mouse as a "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System." This mouse was first used with the Xerox Alto computer system in 1973. However, because of its lack of success the first widely used mouse is credited to being the mouse found on the Apple Lisa computer. Today, the mouse is now found and used on every computer.




The original 100-minute video of this event is part of the Engelbart Collection in Special Collections of Stanford University. This original video has been edited into 35 segments and reformatted as Flash streaming video clips. There is a brief abstract of the subject matter treated in each segment. :

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
Video stream of the : http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html#complete

Is this based on my post from here. Either way it makes an excellent blog.

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1573

Hot Trout wrote:Is this based on my post from here. Either way it makes an excellent blog.

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1573

Completely, forgot about your post HT, Was reading other stuff last night, and ran across an article about Englebart and found the man fascinating, he contributed so much to computing, and picked his mouse. Teaches me to not start writing when I should sleep.

By the way the 100 minute video is called " the Mother of Demonstrations"

I totally agree. I watched a lot of the demo, over 25 mins and was amazed at how advanced they had got their mouse and input devices for 1968 !

A very smart man indeed.

"The Mother of All Demos" is a name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration, given at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer Society's Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, by Douglas Engelbart, on December 9, 1968.