Post #2419260

2022-12-02 18:04 UTC

@ole@chaos.social in other words, sorry, their claim of beating Engelbart by "months" in 1968, does not stand up to even a little bit of scrutiny.

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@me_@sueden.social 2022-12-02 21:16

@byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social Telefunken offered their version of the mouse as a commercial product in October 1968, so the development must have started a significant time before this. Fun fact – the German patent office denied a patent due to missing novelty of the invention...

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@soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-02-17 13:13

@byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social From what I get from Wikipedia it really depends what one considers the point of invention. If it's about going public, then Telefunken was faster (The Rollkugelsteuerung is mentioned in this brochure from 1966: ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/telefunken/tr440/doku/TR440_Mai1966.pdf ). If it's about having the idea - well, it's hard to prove who had it first.

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