Doug Engelbart is dead. Long live the mouse.

[Loose rivets]

I'd forgotten the wheel ones. I sold Logi mice at 104 quid each for my CAD workstations.


BBC News - Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart dies at 88

[Daria]

Thanks for posting this. I didn't know that history or the time frame in which it was introduced.

[EEngr]

Mother of all demos

For those of you interested, Engelbart's 'Mother of all demos' is on YouTube. Its broken up into nine pieces, starting with this one:



Excuse the grainy black and white video. But keep in mind the time at which this was made and how far ahead Doug was.

[Loose rivets]

Steve Jobs (or was it the other Steve?), looked at such a demonstration and thought, This is the future.