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Subject: Re: Who invented the MOUSE ?
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    The mouse was a latecomer as a pointing device.  The first pointing
device developed for computer input was a gun.  SAGE air-defense
consoles of the 1950s used large metal light-guns to indicate targets.
One can be seen in the Computer Museum in Boston.

                                        John Nagle