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Article #18631Re: environment's inventors
From: mkhaw
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1987 17:12
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1987 17:12
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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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