Logitech Ships 500 Millionth Mouse

ipxodi writes "Logitech marks the milestone of 500 million shipped mice. Mice first widely appeared in consumer form on the original Macintosh, but have appeared in various forms back through time to 1964 when they were invented by Doug Englebart. My favorite mouse is also my current mouse, a Logitech Optical Wheel mouse. I also remember some oddities beyond the old bar-of-soap shaped mice of the mid 80's, like one with a crosshair attachment for clicking on specific points of a blueprintfor CAD input. What's your favorite current or past mouse?" My first mouse was back in 1987, for my Apple //c. It cost $50, and came with a double-sided floppy that contained an interactive instructional program on side one, and MousePaint (a port of MacPaint) on side two. Memories!

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Best Mice Ever. Period. (".")

[Lally Singh]

For the PowerBook G4: Logitech MX500.
For the PowerMac G4: Logitech MX700.

I bought the 500 first, loved it so much, that I had to pick up a 700 for home. Now I await:

- A bluetooth 15" Powerbook
- A bluetooth Logitech MXx00 mouse
- Income to pay for it.

Days gone by.

[ProfessionalCookie]

I dunno about you guys but it makes me nothing but upset when Logitech goes out of their way to fill the world with mice. You should see my garden, half eaten roots and stems. 500 Million. 500 MILLION. Corporations now days thing they can just walk all over us.

I remember the good ole days before the mice took over. Never again.

I have one of the original mice

[Hayzeus]

It's one of the first mice produced by Engelbart. Powered by coal, and made almost entirely of cast iron and oak, it weighs nearly 1400 pounds. A true marvel of engineering for its day!

500 Million Mice, and I know where most are...

[swb]

...in a box in the back room where we keep the unused equipment.

And somehow they have violated entropy and managed to tie the cables of *all* of them together, on their own.

Ode to the true Three Button Mouse

[RigMonkey]

Oh how I love thee, modern "three button" mouse. Let me count the ways. One. Twone... twroolllll... twslip-er -roll-er... twthree... dangit!!!! Three. -Unnamed poet of the twenty-first century ____________________________________________ Fight for the survival of REAL thee-button mice!!!

Re:Wuss

[TexVex]

Any real geek could have a Dual Optical Mouse

Ahh, a nice looking piece of hardware. From its feature list:

• Sleek shape fits comfortably into your right hand

Leaving the left hand free to hold your joystick.

Re:Atari ST Mouse

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

My favourite mouse all categories is the Atari ST mouse

The Atari ST mouse your favorite mouse all categories? Tell me : you don't happen to love the ZX81 keyboard too by any chance?

Re:Wuss

[christopherfinke]

My favorite mouse is Rocky. Bullwinkle is cool too.

Rocky was a flying squirrel, you insensitive clod.

Mac Mouse

[jn42]

Anyone else remember the old Mac 'campaign' that went like this:

"Our mouse has only one button, so there's no confusion which button you have to press!" ???

Ah, the good old days... [snort]

j

Perhaps the worst mouse ever made...

[grasshoppah]

Argue all you want, the apple puck mouse was still an abomination.