> On 2017-11-19, at 23:36, Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@sfks.se> wrote: > >> According to this >> >> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CzAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6 >> >> It was announced in may 1982 and went for sale in january 1983 >> > Quite interesting, given that the funder of Koala Technologies in reality wanted to manufacture mice, but found that the market was too small or under developed at the time, so they went with the KoalaPad instead. Apparently Mouse Systems Corporation didn't mind a possible low demand as these two products were released nearly at the same time. Yup, and I certainly remember the KoalaPad at that time but somehow needed to wait until something around late '86 if memory serves to see the first optical mouse. I remember even then it was somewhat ridiculously priced so I got my first only a few years later. -- SD! - http://e4aws.silverdr.com/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-11-19 23:05:40
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