RE: [OT] History of the mouse

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 10:01 AM 12/23/99 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:

>Has it been mentioned that the original mouse was made out of wood?

I've seen reference to copies being made of wood.  I inferred that the
original was plastic or metal.  I guess plastic was a revolutionary
material for computers since it's mentioned that the original Apple
computers were plastic.

As for SmallTalk being an OS, I dont know but IIRC BASIC was essentially
the OS of the early Macs.

-Alan
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