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Where Did Your Mouse Come From? hackaday.com
At the Vintage Computer Festival Berlin, Dmitriy Kostiuk gave a lecture tracing pointing devices from a 1950s trackball built for a Canadian warship to mice becoming common in the 1990s. The talk covers Douglas Engelbart’s prototype, Telefunken’s 1966 design, Mouse Systems’ spotted-pad mice, and early Apple and Microsoft models.