Do you know who invented the mouse?

1, the mouse was invented by DouglasEngelbart in 1964. At that time, douglas engelbart worked at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), an institution sponsored by Stanford University. Douglas Engelbart has long been thinking about how to make the operation of the computer easier, and what means to replace the tedious instructions entered by the keyboard.

2. In the early 1960s, when attending a meeting, he took out his notebook (not a laptop) and drew a sketch of a device, which used two wheels with vertical bottoms to track the movement. This is the prototype of the mouse. 1964, douglas engelbart perfected the idea of this device again and made the first finished product. Therefore, douglas engelbart is also called "the father of mice".

At that time, there was no name of "mouse". This new device is a small wooden box with two rollers but only one button. Its working principle is that the roller drives the shaft to rotate, the rheostat changes the resistance, and the change of the resistance produces a displacement signal, and the cursor indicating the position on the screen can move after being processed by the computer.

4. Because the device drags a long line like a mouse (like a mouse's tail), douglas engelbart and his colleagues nicknamed it "mouse" in the laboratory. He also thought that the mouse might be widely used in the future, so he named it "X-Y position indicator of display system" when applying for a patent, but people thought the name "mouse" was more friendly, so he got the name "mouse".

5. After the mouse was invented, it was first applied to the improved Alto computer system by Xerox on 1973. Unfortunately, at that time, these systems were all used for experiments and research work, and they were not popularized to the public, so the mouse has been unknown.

6.65438-0979, Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was invited to watch Alto and the software executed on the system. Jobs was shocked by the computer technology he saw, and he realized that these technologies represented the future development trend of computers. These technologies include using a mouse as a pointing input device and a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the operating system. Apple immediately added these functions to its own system, prepared to develop a new type of home computer, and hired more than a dozen technicians from Xerox at a high salary. 198 1 year, Xerox introduced the Star 80 10 computer, which uses a mouse and a GUI operating system. This is the first time that the public knows about the mouse. Unfortunately, due to the high price of this computer, the sales volume is very small. Nevertheless, the mouse has attracted many people's attention and started to be mastered by people.

7. 1983, Apple officially launched the LISA computer, which is Apple's first computer using a mouse, and further introduced the mouse to users, so that users can realize the role of the mouse.

8. 1984, the Macintosh, an upgraded product of LISA, came out, which was a milestone of Apple and the history of computer development. It not only brought rich income to Apple, but also brought the mouse into thousands of households. Later, due to the extensive use of OS/2 and Windows systems, the application of mouse and GUI was further promoted, which made the mouse gradually popular and eventually became the standard configuration of computers. From then on, every computer has a loyal companion, that is "mouse"-mouse.