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The computer mouse was a pointing device invented in the 1960s by Douglas Engelbart as a means of avoiding the use of the finger to smear dirt and oil on glass particularly at ATMs and PoS stations.

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[–] xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

The Sun workstations also had the optical mouse with a metal pad.