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To: Dalberg-Acton

They say Xerox developed the original Mouse/GUI if I remember correctly.....


77 posted on 01/18/2017 4:43:45 PM PST by NYAmerican
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To: NYAmerican

Those Xerox computers had a 19” monochrome GUI, a hard drive and a mouse when IBM PC’s still had DOS.


90 posted on 01/18/2017 5:08:58 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: NYAmerican; Dalberg-Acton

Doug Englebart invented the mouse ~1963, & perfected it (at the time) at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), along with other GUI innovations.


97 posted on 01/18/2017 5:24:58 PM PST by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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