Post #2419261
2022-12-02 21:16 UTC
@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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@me_@sueden.social 2022-12-02 21:18
@byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social This page of the Heinz Nixdorf computer museum (in German, sorry) claims that the development has started "after 1965". The exact date does not seem to be known. https://blog.hnf.de/wenn-die-maus-zweimal-klingelt/
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@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place 2022-12-03 01:04
@me_@sueden.social @byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social Maybe rightfully so, considering that it apparently has been invented independently by two teams on different continents at roughly the same time (I wish patent offices still were this strict)