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To: martin_fierro
Where's the mouse? Seriously? Was it "sold separately"?

You have to forgive me -- I was 11 in 1986.
7 posted on 08/11/2006 3:42:05 PM PDT by jdm
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To: jdm

LOL

WHAT mouse??

Only Macs had 'em.

I remember being amazed by the "spraypaint" feature + mouse in the Mac paint program of the time.


8 posted on 08/11/2006 3:59:54 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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I was considered quite the radical in 1988 or so for getting a mouse with my PC. I also ran Windows 1.0, Word 1.0 and Excel 1.0. That was about the time that the mouse was being degraded as an "upside down track ball." I remember the t-shirts that were big sellers at PC conventions that said "Real men don't use mice."
15 posted on 08/12/2006 12:02:27 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (The most important thing is sincerity. Once you can fake that, everything else is easy.)
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To: jdm; martin_fierro

Quite possibly. Though as far as I can remember, computers had mice--even the dinky Mac LC's with System 6 (and later, System 7) the grade school lab had...

Then again, I was born in '86...8^)


21 posted on 08/12/2006 7:42:56 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (II Computers 3:14))
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