Mouses – Page 4 – “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

1993 — Evergreen Diamond XL trackball

The Diamond XL trackball was produced by the Evergreen Systems International company in California, founded in 1980 and specialized in high-quality trackballs for industrial and military applications. Diamond trackballs have been positioned as a mouse replacement in computer systems where fast and precise pointing is required (CAD/CAM, graphics, workstations, kiosks, etc.) and in industrial and military systems where a mouse…

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1998 – Logitech TrackMan Marble FX

Of course, the main distinguishing feature of the Trackman Marble FX trackball released by Logitech in 1998, is its unusual shape, which provides support for the wrist and gives access to the ball from both sides of the body at once. As planned by the manufacturer, this allows you to move the ball with either one finger or two fingers…

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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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