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- 1960s
- Engelbart's first mouse
- Telefunken "Rollkugel"
- 1966
- Orbit X-Y Ball Tracker
- 1970s
- Mystery wheel mouse
- Hawley Mouse House
- 1972
- Alto I [2]
- 1981
- Xerox 8010 Star [2]
- 1982
- Logitech
- VisiOn GUI
- Mouse Systems
- KoalaPad
- Mouse Systems
- 1983
- Hawley Mark II X063X
- Lisa
- Microsoft
- Microsoft green-eyed mouse
- 1984
- Macintosh
- 1985
- NeXT Computer
- Microsoft grey-eyed mouse
- 1986
- Hawley DEC mouse
- GEOS GUI
- Atari ST mouse
- Commodore 1350 Mouse
- 1987
- IBM PS/2
- Microsoft 'Dove bar' mouse
- 1996
- USB (see: Connectors)
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Xerox
The Xerox PARC (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) research facility opened in 1970 where the graphic interface for computers and the computer mouse were designed. The first mouse model was used on the Alto.
Jack Hawley was the lead inventor on a Xerox patent filed in 1973 for a mouse which used wheels to track the X and Y movements.
In 1981 the Xerox 8010 and Star software were designed and a new mouse make use of them.
Xerox mouse patent
Alto mouse
Star mouse
Star and Alto mouse photos