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From: cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw)
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Subject: Re: Who invented the MOUSE ?
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Date: 26 Apr 91 03:33:00 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.065301.12230@milton.u.washington.edu> Faraday writes:
>I was wondering if any of you could tell me who invented the 'Mouse'.
>I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was Doug Engelbart 

You remember right. The relevant paper is

DC Engelbart & WK English, "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect",
Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1968, pp 395-410.

Engelbart invented the mouse in about 1965.

>Peter Faraday  @  'The Home of the computer'

I thought Zuse (Germany somewhere) and Atanasoff (Iowa) were the
"fathers of the computer", hence Germany and Iowa are "Homes of the Computer"
;-)}

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