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!

Comments

Re:crosshairs?...Balls?

[Dog and Pony]

About half of them do...

Re:PARC?

[khuber]

Engelbart worked at Stanford, not PARC.

Moo

[Chacham]

My first moiuse was an Agiler. It even came with a dock, so the mouse could be kep on side of the monitor. :) Then we got a trackball. I really liked that trackball. Easy use of the thumb to move around. Unfortunately, i have never found a trackball like it since. They all seem require to require some odd placement of the hand to rest the thumb on the ball. I liked the simple, directly to the left, placement of the ball.