Hi Everyone, As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming. SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics: Historically important mice Historically oddball mice Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for WorstMouseEver<tm>). Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome. For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff. Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse: https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135 I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there. Best wishes, -Adam --- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
You left out the Lisa mouse!! :) Electrically and mechanically they are the same inside as the Mac M0100 - which isn't serial, it's quadrature. Perhaps that would be a nice panel to put in the exhibit - how the mouse talks to the computer. -J On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:08 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming.
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for WorstMouseEver<tm>). Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice
Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome.
For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff.
Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135
I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there.
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Oh - and what about sensing technology! There's mechanical (Xerox mouse, Microsoft Green Eyed Mouse, etc where contacts rotate), optomechanical (Mac / Lisa mouse), "vintage optical" (Mouse systems with the shiny mouse pad), and modern optical (camera based). On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:46 PM Jason Perkins <perkins.jason@gmail.com> wrote:
You left out the Lisa mouse!! :) Electrically and mechanically they are the same inside as the Mac M0100 - which isn't serial, it's quadrature.
Perhaps that would be a nice panel to put in the exhibit - how the mouse talks to the computer.
-J
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:08 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming.
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for WorstMouseEver<tm>). Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice
Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome.
For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff.
Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135
I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there.
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Oh - and what about sensing technology! There's mechanical (Xerox mouse, Microsoft Green Eyed Mouse, etc where contacts rotate), optomechanical (Mac / Lisa mouse), "vintage optical" (Mouse systems with the shiny mouse pad), and modern optical (camera based).
I remember some strange Digital or HP things that each had two wheels on the bottom, and those wheels were cocked at an angle. It did the same job as the ball, just much more simple. - Ethan
On 8/4/21 1:49 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I remember some strange Digital or HP things that each had two wheels on the bottom, and those wheels were cocked at an angle. It did the same job as the ball, just much more simple.
That's a DEC design. They won an industrial design award for that mouse. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
We only have that one Lisa 2 mouse, though, and it is on the Lisa! Got a spare? ;) Electrically and mechanically they are the same as the M0100? But the housing matches the Lisa 1 mouse with the wider button? I always (incorrectly) assumed the Lisa 1 and 2 used the same mouse. And TIL about quadrature mice. Thanks! On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:47 PM Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
You left out the Lisa mouse!! :) Electrically and mechanically they are the same inside as the Mac M0100 - which isn't serial, it's quadrature.
Perhaps that would be a nice panel to put in the exhibit - how the mouse talks to the computer.
-J
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:08 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming.
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for WorstMouseEver<tm>). Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice
Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome.
For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff.
Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135
I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there.
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
On 8/4/21 11:08 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
We have a Depraz mouse at LSSM; we'd be happy to loan it to the exhibit. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
You can bid on these and add them to the exhibit https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/344643206157019-douglas-engelb... On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming.
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for WorstMouseEver<tm>). Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice
Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome.
For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff.
Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135
I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there.
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
They really do belong in a museum, but, alas, too rich for my blood. On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 2:01 PM Christian Liendo <cliendo@gmail.com> wrote:
You can bid on these and add them to the exhibit
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/344643206157019-douglas-engelb...
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming.
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for WorstMouseEver<tm>). Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice
Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome.
For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff.
Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135
I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there.
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
Adam, You'll probably enjoy the first section of this booc, it talked about the history of the Microsoft Mouse: https://archive.org/details/microsoftmousepr00micr -J On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 2:45 PM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They really do belong in a museum, but, alas, too rich for my blood.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 2:01 PM Christian Liendo <cliendo@gmail.com> wrote:
You can bid on these and add them to the exhibit
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/344643206157019-douglas-engelb...
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know, I'm moving back to New Jersey (actually this weekend). I'll be living a few minutes north of the museum and am already brainstorming.
SomeTimeSoon<tm> I'm hoping to propose a mouse exhibit for the museum. To that end, I thought it would be fun to brainstorm on two mouse related topics:
Historically important mice Historically oddball mice
Mice I know we have: DEC mouse Xerox Alto mouse (currently on the Xerox Star, anyone want to donate a Xerox Star mouse? Pretty please?) Xerox DayBreak mouse (winner of the What Could Be Possibly Thinking? Connector Award) Original Mac serial mouse Various ADB Mac mice Various Commodore mice Various Amiga mice Various Atari mice iMac Puck Mouse (slightly out of scope, but my vote for
WorstMouseEver<tm>).
Various PS/2 and serial PC mice Various Apple II related mice
Thoughts on important pointing devices (trackpads, trackballs, etc.) beyond the mouse are also most welcome.
For those that may not know, we try to mix up the exhibits but are often at the limits of what is in the VCF collection. So if you have a mouse to donate, we greatly appreciate it and we can give you a tax writeoff.
Along the same lines, we'd love someone to buy and donate this Lisa 1 mouse:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284394610135
I'm told it is a good price. I'm also told it doesn't work with our Lisa 2. But it would make a nice artifact for a possibly future mouse exhibit and we can keep it for the day that we do have a Lisa 1. I'm thrilled to share that the System Source Museum in Maryland just acquired a Lisa 1, so they are out there.
Best wishes,
-Adam
--- Adam Michlin Director of Marketing Vintage Computer Federation
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
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