Mouses

In March 1973, Xerox Corporation announced the Xerox Alto computer, considered the first workstation (or personal computer), as well as the first computer with a graphical user interface. The workstation also came with the first mass-produced mouse in the history of computers, the Xerox Alto Mouse. The original mouse based on two wheels was in several years upgraded and started…

The Mouse Systems M4 mouse is a typical manipulator from the Mouse Systems company created by Stephen Kirsch in 1982 to produce the original optical mouse he invented. This model is a representative of the fourth generation (the last and record in terms of the number of copies) of Mouse Systems mice designed by Kirsch. This one is designed to…

The Q500 mouse was produced in South Korea and was (along with the Hi-Bon Optical laser mouse LMOX-2) one of two unusual optical mice with light guides, developed in 1996 by iO TEK. The Q500 mouse probably has the cheapest optical mouse design ever invented. As with the vast majority of early optical mice, this mousepad requires a reflective mesh…

The Hi-Bon Optical laser mouse LMOX-2 was produced in South Korea and was, along with the Q500 mouse, one of two unusual optical mice developed in 1996 by iO TEK that use light fibers. The resolution of this mouse is 450 dpi. The box mentions as a revolutionary feature the absence of a ball and, accordingly, the absence of the…