Happy New Year
dad
December 31, 2012
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Apple Gets Into The Mouse Game
dad
December 06, 2012
Around the same period, Steve Jobs was also looking for an innovative input system for his forthcoming Apple systems, and considered th...
Monday, October 22, 2012
The “ball mouse” and Xerox
dad
October 22, 2012
Although it was Engelbart who first developed the mouse, his former colleague, Bill English, was the one who took forward its development....
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The B.X. (Before Xerox) Era
dad
September 12, 2012
Most people tend to associate the invention of the mouse with Xerox and its research park. In fact, the first functional mouse was actual...
Monday, August 20, 2012
Computer Mouse
dad
August 20, 2012
A mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse c...
Friday, April 20, 2012
3½ Inch Format
dad
April 20, 2012
Sony introduced their own small-format 90.0 mm × 94.0 mm disk, similar to the others but somewhat simpler in construction than the AmDisk...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 3-inch floppies
dad
April 03, 2012
Another 3-inch format was Mitsumi's Quick Disk format. The Quick Disk format is referred to in various size references: 2.8-inch, 3-i...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The 3-inch compact floppy disk
dad
March 20, 2012
Throughout the early 1980s the limitations of the 5¼-inch format were starting to become clear. Originally designed to be smaller and mo...
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The "Twiggy" disk
dad
March 08, 2012
In the early '80s, Apple fell victim to a serious case of NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here), and decided to manufacture their own di...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The 5¼-inch mini floppy
dad
March 01, 2012
In a 1976 meeting, An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates' Jim Adkinson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was...
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The 8-inch disk
dad
January 05, 2012
In 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a reliable and inexpensive system for loading m...
