OK I checked and it's 'CDI' - Computer Displays Inc. - I have SN #4. I think it was about 1972 that I bought this but it'd take some time with a fortune teller to get the real date out of me.
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I'm pretty sure that model had 2 wheels on the bottom. I did see the presentation at either FJCC or SigGraph (don't remember) when they were in S.F. But I checked the movie out of SRI later and showed it several time to friends and it may be on the movie.
What little I remember of that tracks. I THOUGHT I had seen the bottom of that mouse and it had 2 wheels for x & y. I bought a mouse shortly after that from (I'll have to check - still have it) IDC? I interfaced it to the Tektronix Storage Scope (stroke writer) display. (The cursor had a low intensity non-store mode). This has 2 aluminum wheels in X & Y directions and an idler ball bearing that looks like the top of a big ballpoint pen. I vaguely recall a knee operated switch or cursor too, but that may have been a vendor display instead of the SRI presentation.
If only they'd known about IP at Xerox and SRI. LOL.
Completely agree! I was fortunate to see that demo (though I remembered it as the S.F. SigGraph - but I went to FJCC's and SPJJ's back then too). Later, I checked the film out of SRI and showed it to a number of people where I worked, which in part got us hooked up to Arpanet pretty early on back then. He had a wonderful 5 finger 'chord' keyboard too, and a chair to make it easy to tip back and operate mouse & keyboard at the same time. Great visionary!
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OK I checked and it's 'CDI' - Computer Displays Inc. - I have SN #4. I think it was about 1972 that I bought this but it'd take some time with a fortune teller to get the real date out of me.
I'm pretty sure that model had 2 wheels on the bottom. I did see the presentation at either FJCC or SigGraph (don't remember) when they were in S.F. But I checked the movie out of SRI later and showed it several time to friends and it may be on the movie.
What little I remember of that tracks. I THOUGHT I had seen the bottom of that mouse and it had 2 wheels for x & y. I bought a mouse shortly after that from (I'll have to check - still have it) IDC? I interfaced it to the Tektronix Storage Scope (stroke writer) display. (The cursor had a low intensity non-store mode). This has 2 aluminum wheels in X & Y directions and an idler ball bearing that looks like the top of a big ballpoint pen. I vaguely recall a knee operated switch or cursor too, but that may have been a vendor display instead of the SRI presentation. If only they'd known about IP at Xerox and SRI. LOL.
Completely agree! I was fortunate to see that demo (though I remembered it as the S.F. SigGraph - but I went to FJCC's and SPJJ's back then too). Later, I checked the film out of SRI and showed it to a number of people where I worked, which in part got us hooked up to Arpanet pretty early on back then. He had a wonderful 5 finger 'chord' keyboard too, and a chair to make it easy to tip back and operate mouse & keyboard at the same time. Great visionary!