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Article: Computer mouse: It's come a long way
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2003
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Watch out, Mickey. The computer mouse
might be more loved.
Thanks to computer users who reach for their mice everyday,
Logitech International says it has shipped 500 million mice,
accompanying an estimated 55 percent of the 900 million desktop PCs
produced over the past two decades.
The mouse, used to move the cursor or activate functions on
computers, has come a long way since Doug Engelbart invented it in
1964.
Computer input at that time worked more like a teletype machine
with text-only lines. It wasn't until 1984, when the mouse found a
friend in the Apple Macintosh, that the boxy ...