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Trackball 50 Years Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the spherical-insanity dept.

GRW writes "Rachel Ross in a Toronto Star story called The mouse that soared, writes "Fifty years ago, a team of engineers in Toronto turned a simple bowling ball into one of the most influential gadgets of our time. The trackball they created would grow into a mouse." "Tom Cranston and a colleague, Fred Longstaff, thought up the trackball idea while working on a Lake Ontario military project called the Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving System (DATAR)."" I played a bowling game in Boston once that used a bowling ball sized trackball to run a ball through a bizarre 3D bowling lane. I thought a regular trackball messed with my wrists ;)

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  1. Re:The trackball by Penis · · Score: 0, Troll

    So nice to be able to put the trackball in your lap and not have to hunch over the leetle tray table...

    I dunno.
    If I looked across the aisle and saw some guy staring
    intently at his computer, feverishly twiddling something in his lap, I'd prolly be kinda creeped out.

    Penis