Yes, QuarterDeck was the manufacturer of DeskView. I have the original version.
Man, those were the days! :)
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#x27;Juha Saarinen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [OT] History of the mouse
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>
> Quarterdeck was, if I recall correctly, another of the licensed versions.
> Or perhaps I misremember, and Quarterdeck was the original source (pretty
> sure it's the other way, tho
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Manuel Camacho wrote:
> > Somewhere in here Microsoft Windows was launched. The first couple
>
> Yep. I remember that on my first MSWindows the mouse was mentioned as an
> "optional" item. BTW, I run the earliest Windows in an 8 MHz 8088, 640K of RAM
> and 20MB HDD. No mouse
> Somewhere in here Microsoft Windows was launched. The first couple
Yep. I remember that on my first MSWindows the mouse was mentioned as an
"optional" item. BTW, I run the earliest Windows in an 8 MHz 8088, 640K of RAM
and 20MB HDD. No mouse at all... Then I bought a Logitech Bus mouse for abo
> I don't know much about the early macs, but I do know that BASIC was part
> and parcel of the OS for several micros of that era - Commodore PET and
> 64, Apple and Apple II, maybe even the earliest IBM PC/XT machines. I
On the original IBM PC/XT, if you did not insert a bootable floppy on sta
rinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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To: Ward William E PHDN; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [OT] History of the mouse
> The original software was developed 1983ish and was called Deskview under
> one
> of it's incarnations. Deskview was licensed t
> The original software was developed 1983ish and was called Deskview under
> one
> of it's incarnations. Deskview was licensed to a number of other
> companies
> for "tweaking" improvements, and resold... I used to own (still do, if I
> could
> find the disk) a copy of Deskview by Indian Head So
face and system. The rest everyone knows, I'm sure.
Bill Ward
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From: Alan Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: [OT] History of the mouse
Thanks
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Alan Mead wrote:
> At 10:01 AM 12/23/99 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> >Has it been mentioned that the original mouse was made out of wood?
>
> I've seen reference to copies being made of wood. I inferred that the
> original was plastic or metal. I guess plastic was a re
On 12/22/99, Alan Mead (as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") wrote:
>Thanks for all the replies. My notes are at home, from memory here are the
>seemingly reliable bits:
>
>The STAR by the Xerox PARC folks was the first commercial system using the
>mouse and other UI innovations but it has an enormous cost ($
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Alan Mead wrote:
> As for SmallTalk being an OS, I dont know but IIRC BASIC was essentially
> the OS of the early Macs.
I don't know much about the early macs, but I do know that BASIC was part
and parcel of the OS for several micros of that era - Commodore PET and
64, Apple
At 10:01 AM 12/23/99 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>Has it been mentioned that the original mouse was made out of wood?
I've seen reference to copies being made of wood. I inferred that the
original was plastic or metal. I guess plastic was a revolutionary
material for computers since it's menti
> Thanks for all the replies. My notes are at home, from memory
> here are the
> seemingly reliable bits:
>
> The mouse was probably developed by Englebart at SRI in the mid 60's
> (1965?). Someone said it was a cheap replacement for the lightpen which
> had been in use for some time. By 1968
Thanks for all the replies. My notes are at home, from memory here are the
seemingly reliable bits:
The mouse was probably developed by Englebart at SRI in the mid 60's
(1965?). Someone said it was a cheap replacement for the lightpen which
had been in use for some time. By 1968 there were ref
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