when a single computer could fill an entire room. Early prototypes of the mouse featured a rectangular wooden shell with two metal wheels inside – one for the X axis and one for the Y axis.

We thought the construction was really neat; suspending a wooden ball in the middle ... translates the output from the mouse into something the computer likes. The code is available on his ...

Dvice recently published a visual history of the computer mouse, which is quite interesting. The first pointing device that relied on hand motions to move a cursor was created by the Royal ...