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Douglas Englehart of Stanford University
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Douglas Englehart of Stanford University developed the mouse, along with a five-key "chorded keyboard." The combination was supposed to replace the conventional typewriter-style keypay. But with the rise of computers in the early 1970s, an office computer called the Xerox Star came with a primitive mouse. Then Apple included a mouse with its 1983 Lisa. The name comes from the two buttons that resembled eyes, and the long cord that resembled a tail. Englehart also came up with a larger, foot-operated control called a rat, but it never really caught on. |