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Three Button Mouse from the Xerox Alto
(with keyset)

The following is a three button mouse from our Xerox Alto II XM and was derivative of the first mouse produced by Doug Engelbart's group at SRI in the mid 1960s. We also have in our collections and Alto keyset, the first Microsoft Mouse and the first joystick created for an Apple computer. Gary, a DigiBarn visitor, later sent in photos of an original Alto wheel mouse that he has in his collection.

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Three green buttons, close together
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Steel roller ball, positioned correctly
under the fingertip (selector)
position
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Keyset and mouse

Another mouse derived from the original Alto and Engelbart/English mouse
(thanks Gary for these photos) :



Mouse House mouse from the 70s
Manufactured in the Bay Area
of Northern California

Bottom

Note arrangements of wheels,
replaced later by steel ball

Know anything more about Xerox user interface devices? Contact us!

See Also:

Our Xerox Alto II XM

Our Xerox Alto Keyset

The Mouse Site at Stanford


The Alto 30th Anniversary Events

Produced by the DigiBarn (October 2003)


The Digibarn's extensive collection of Xerox computers and other artifacts

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