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Computer History

Hasitha Helappriya ― 24 weeks ago

Apple Gets Into The Mouse Game

Computer History ― Around the same period, Steve Jobs was also looking for an innovative input system for his forthcoming Apple systems, and considered the mouse to be just it. For this reason, he commissioned design firm Hovey-Kelley to create an inexpensive,...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 27 weeks ago

The “ball mouse” and Xerox

Computer History ― Although it was Engelbart who first developed the mouse, his former colleague, Bill English, was the one who took forward its development. Hence, while working in 1972 for Xerox in its already famous Palo Alto Research Park, English and Jack ...

Hasitha Helappriya ― 34 weeks ago

The B.X. (Before Xerox) Era

Computer History ― Most people tend to associate the invention of the mouse with Xerox and its research park. In fact, the first functional mouse was actually demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart, a researcher from the Stanford Research Institute, back in 1963. The...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 39 weeks ago

Computer Mouse

Computer History ― A mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. ∙ The mouse ...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 43 weeks ago

3½ Inch Format

Computer History ― 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 3-inch floppy. The first computer to use this format was Sony's SMC 70 of 1982. Other than Hewlett-Packard's...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 20 Apr, 12

Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 3-inch floppies

Computer History ― 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-inch×3-inch and 3-inch×4-inch. Mitsumi offered this as OEM equipment, expecting their VAR customers to customize ...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 3 Apr, 12

The 3-inch compact floppy disk

Computer History ― Throughout the early 1980s the limitations of the 5¼-inch format were starting to become clear. Originally designed to be smaller and more practical than the 8-inch format, the 5¼-inch system was itself too large, and as the quality of the ...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 28 Mar, 12

The "Twiggy" disk

Computer History ― In the early '80s, Apple fell victim to a serious case of NIH Syndrome (NotInvented Here), and decided to manufacture their own disk drives. Not contentto be industry compatible, instead they designed what they believed to beleading-edge drives:...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 28 Mar, 12

The 5¼-inch mini floppy

Computer History ― In a 1976 meeting, An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates' Jim Adkinson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was simply too large for the desktop word processing machines he was developing at the time. Adkinson and Massaro...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 28 Mar, 12

The 8-inch disk

Computer History ― In 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a reliable and inexpensive system for loading microcode into their System/370 mainframes in a process called Initial Control Program Load (ICPL). The ...

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Hasitha Helappriya ― 28 Mar, 12

Merry Christmas

Computer History

Hasitha Helappriya ― 28 Mar, 12

Hasitha Helappriya (Hasithah) uses Bloggers to connect with peer Bloggers. Join the largest Bloggers Community to follow Hasitha Helappriya (Hasithah), and build your audience now!

Computer History

Happy New Year

Apple Gets Into The Mouse Game

The “ball mouse” and Xerox

The B.X. (Before Xerox) Era

Computer Mouse

3½ Inch Format

Mitsumi's "Quick Disk" 3-inch floppies

The 3-inch compact floppy disk

The "Twiggy" disk

The 5¼-inch mini floppy

The 8-inch disk

Merry Christmas

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