Re: [NTLK] article

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 02:30:42 EDT


on 7/11/02 3:27 AM, SlashDevNull at slashdevnull_at_mac.com wrote:

> The optical mouse MS introduced came from HP.

?? I used an optical mouse ages ago, on a Xerox dedicated Desktop publishing
machine. It was pretty cool. You had a desktop with a printer and a
trashcan. When you wanted to print, you had to close the file, and drag it
to the printer icon. It printed to a laser printer that did double-duty as a
photocopier. It predated the Mac by at least a couple of years. I'm guessing
it was the fruit of Xerox's famed PARC lab?? I don't recall if it had
overlapping windows. At the time, I never considered that it was a
"computer" of any sort, just a different way of doing text layout, and more
visual and simpler than the line-based system I had used before.

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