Mouses – Page 3 – “Joysticks, tracking balls and mouses are used to specify the point on a display where a certain instruction is to be obeyed” (by David Cowan

1983 – Logitech LogiMouse P5

LOGIMOUSE P5 mouse was released in 1983. This is the second manipulator from Logitech (after the famous P4 mouse, production of which continued simultaneously with P5). LOGIMOUSE P5 was a cheaper model (the selling price differed by $100), and it was intended primarily for OEM supplies. But the main feature of the P5 is a radically different exterior. The mouse…

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2000 – IBM ScrollPoint II mouse

The MO09K model, released around 2000, was the second generation of the IBM ScrollPoint mouse that debuted in 1998. A feature of this IBM mouse was the replacement of the scroll wheel with the trackpoint – a miniature analog stick (actually, a strain gauge joystick), similar to the cursor controls used in the ThinkPad line of laptops. Trackpoint integration made…

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1992 – IBM “soap” mouse

This mouse, officially known by the hard-to-remember name “model 13H6690” (and almost identical “model 33G5430”) was apparently released to the market in 1992 as an update to the 1987 IBM PS/2 mouse. In addition to the obvious association with a well-rounded bar of soap, this model was also unofficially called “IBM Fat Mouse”. Despite its wide distribution, this mouse is…

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1989 – Fujitsu FM Towns model 1 mouse (FMT-MO101)

In February 1989, Fujitsu announced the first model of the FM Towns family of computers, running its own Towns OS graphics system. FM Towns was a proprietary variant of the PC-compatible architecture focused on multimedia applications and games. The first FM Towns model used an Intel 80386 processor, was equipped with 1 or 2 megabytes of RAM, a CD-ROM drive,…

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1984 – Tandy TRS-80 Color Mouse

Tandy TRS-80 Color Mouse was designed for the RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer (later renamed to Tandy Color Computer). The Color Computer model 1, released in 1981, was a home computer equipped with a calculator rubber keyboard, 4Kb to 32Kb RAM, 8-bit word length, and used a TV set as a display. Over time, the list of peripheral devices expanded, and…

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1983 – Microsoft Green-eyed Mouse

Microsoft’s first mouse was released in 1983 and was also the first product from its hardware division, which the company opened a year earlier. Because of the two green buttons, this model is known as the “green-eyed mouse”. Since Microsoft at that time did not have enough experience in the hardware development and manufacture, the real manufacturer of the mouse…

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1982 – Dépraz / Digimouse mouse

Originally produced by watchmaking company Dubois Depraz SA, this mouse was designed by André Guignard and Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud of the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne in Switzerland in 1977. Its feature was opto-mechanical encoders, which significantly improved the original design of Douglas Engelbart. However, due to the lack of software that supported mouse control, the real spread of the…

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About the site

The mouses.info website was created to track the history of the cursor control devices: mainly computer mice and trackballs, but also some more exotic ones, such as joysticks, paddles, etc. Actually,any cursor controller is in our area of interest if it’s a separate human interface device intended to move some cursor on the screen. Cursor controllers (especially mice) are interesting…

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