Doug Engelbart was the inventor of the mouse. Got the chance to meet
him around twelve years ago. One of his employees actually coined the
name mouse.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html
Rick Mason
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Applebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:37:56 -0700
Subject: Re: VMWare was Re: Best choice for ColdFusion Studio IDE...
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On Jul 19, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Claude Schneegans wrote:
> The truth now is that all programs "developed for the Mac" are know
> developed on PCs,... and eventually
> converted for Macs later.
For the majority of programs, you are likely correct.
Except, of course, those Mac-only programs. And, from what I am told
MS-Office for OS X was developed on the Mac, for the Mac -- and the
windows version is not as current.
One Mac-developed program that was ported to the PC, seem to be doing
well -- iTunes.
> Ah ah! Anothed urban legend! I suppose you are speaking of the mouse
> "invented by Apple, and copied for the PC
> by IBM, blah, blah blah..."
Credit for inventing the mouse is generally given to (can't remember
his name, Bing, I think) an employee Of Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. The
GUI also was first packaged by PARC in the Alto computer.
> I can tell you, I used to teach computer graphics in the early 70's,
> and there WERE MICE, and Steeve Jobs was
> still sucking his Pablum! ;-))
Well Steve, may have been sucking pablum, but he was doing it at
Homestead High School in Sunnyvale, Because he was Employee number 2
at Apple in 1976,
As to mice, I worked for IBM in Palo Alto 73-80 in the heart of
Silicon valley -- Saw the first 5 computer stores open, and was hooked.
Bought an Apple ][ in June 1978, and opened my first computer store in
December 78.
Some primitive joysticks were available ( we had exclusive rights to
one) -- but there were no mice (I grant you it was being discussed as a
laboratory concept) -- I was there.
> The only things Apple has ever "invented" are the ONE button mouse,
> and the paper-clip-eject diskette driver! Big deal ;-))
Mmmm... Just about everything Steve Wozniak developed after Apple was
incorporated was patented,
Don't forget, Apple invented the first personal computer, the apple ][
(not the first microcomputer (Fred Roberts' Altair), but the first
personal computer). Others were in the form of kits or components. The
apple 2 was a complete computer -- you need to buy an RF modulator for
your TV and a cassette deck (optional) -- but the computer was
complete.
It was Apple who created a product that created a product and a Company
infrastructure that launched the personal computer into home and
business. Three partners, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markula
(several times a millionaire -- one of the early founders on Intel).
BTW, We used to sell Apple ][ computers to IBM, Xerox PARC, Intel,
National Semi -- and ddamn near every other business in the South Bay
Dick________________________________
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