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- trackballs
- 1960s
- Engelbart's first mouse
- Telefunken "Rollkugel"
- 1966
- Orbit X-Y Ball Tracker
- 1970s
- Mystery wheel mouse
- Hawley Mouse House
- 1973
- Alto I [2]
- 1981
- Xerox 8010 Star [2]
- 1982
- Logitech
- VisiOn GUI
- Mouse Systems
- KoalaPad
- 1983
- Hawley Mark II X063X
- Lisa
- Microsoft bus mouse
- 1984
- Macintosh
- Microsoft serial mouse
- 1985
- NeXT Computer
- 1986
- Hawley DEC mouse
- GEOS GUI
- Atari ST mouse
- Commodore 1350 Mouse
- 1987
- IBM PS/2
- Microsoft 'dove bar' mouse
- 1996
- USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- 1997
- Microsoft PC 97 standard
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Input Timeline
- 1930s - The first light guns appear
- 1952 - manual hand wheels move electronic cursor markings for radar tracking
- 1953 - JOHNNIAC used to develop digitizing tablets for computer input
- circa 1957 - The first light pen on the Lincoln TX-0 computer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
- 1963 - Ivan Sutherland's prototype of the GUI with Sketchpad using a light pen on Lincoln Laboratory's TX-2 computer at M.I.T
- 1963-74 - Doug Engelbart and Bill English invent a wooden cased wheel mouse
- 1966 - Orbit X-Y Ball Tracker installed in military air traffic control towers.
- 1968 - Doug Engelbart presents his NLS (oN Line System) and 3-button plastic housed compter mouse and keyset
- 1972 - Xerox developed a graphical user interface (GUI) with a mouse on their experimental Alto computer
- 1974 - IBM 8080 computer released
- 1975 - the Altair 8800, first successful personal computer, controlled by switches
- 1976 - Wozniac's Apple I personal computer uses a keyboard to enter data, and a TV as a monitor
- 1977 - the Apple II personal computer produces sound and color graphics
- 1977 - David Thornburg attached his touch tablet, the precursor of the KoalaPad, to an Alto
- 1977 - Stephen Bristow invented the joystick game controller working for Atari
- 1978 - Atari was the first to use a trackball for an arcade game
- 1981 - IBM's first personal computer– released with a command line interface
- 1981 - Xerox marketed its 8010 GUI with Star software and a 2-button mouse
- 1982 - VisiCorp announces the VisiOn graphical user interface (GUI).
- 1982 - Mouse Systems releases first mouse for the PC, an optical mouse
- 1982 - KoalaPad, touch tablet with a Stylus to draw and replace joysticks on Apple IIs and Atari 8-bit.
- 1982 - Commodore 64 with no mouse support - supported paddles & the standard digital (Atari VCS type) joysticks.
- 1983 - Atari 400 and 800 home computers still use joysticks— rejected the Hawley mouse
- 1983 - Apple unveils its Lisa computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and single-button mouse
- 1983 - Microsoft's first mouse, a bus mouse with card and software for $200.
- 1983 - Jack Hawley creates his Mark II X063X 3-button mouse from the Mouse House
- 1984 - Macintosh computer with one-button mouse and a GUI
- 1984 - The Microsoft serial mouse and software
- 1985 - Steve Jobs starts NeXT Computer, produces a UNIX OS in a black case with a matching black mouse
- 1986 - GEOS [Graphical Environment Operating System] introduced for the C-64.
- 1986 - Atari ST comes equipped with its own mouse, a 'joystick emulator'
- 1986 - Commodore 1350 Mouse for the C128 - joystick emulation only
- 1987 - IBM PS/2 creates a new mouse interface with a round connector
- 1987 - Microsoft 'dove bar' mouse
- 1996 - USB (Universal Serial Bus) 'hot swappable' with high speed transfers & multiple devices
- 1997 - Microsoft PC 97 standard defines Purple for keyboards and green for mice plugs