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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Doug Engelbart

[VAXGeek]

Doug also invented the GUI and Smalltalk (www.squeak.org). Most of you are familiar with the GUI, but you really should give Squeak a look. It's a pretty cool development enviornment.

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!

Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel

[kworthington]

My favorite is actually a trackball. No un-necessary wrist movement avoids carpal-tunnel nicely. My preference is the Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel, which has a scroll button as a third button. It's sort of the older version of this. Mine is a bit 'wider' left to right, and is white rather than silver/gray.

Re:Logitech Marble Mouse

[Vargasan]

I have an old Trackman Marble and two Cordless Optical Marbles.
Best "mouse" I've ever owned. Who needs mousepads?!

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.