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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: environment's inventors
Message-ID: <16258@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 13:12:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 13:12:45 1987
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in article <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) says:
-> PS: Back in 1982 I tried, and failed, to get a mouse for my
-> personal computer.  (Most people in the microcomputer industry had
-> never heard of them, and I couldn't find any mouse manufacturers).
-> Interesting how much things have progressed in 5 years.

You must have been early by a few months or no more than a year at most,
because by late '82 or early '83 I was writing a driver for a Mouse Systems
Corp optical mouse, which had just come on the market for PCs.

Mike Khaw
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