Re: Discover my Apple mouse prototype

[David Schmidt <david4602@gmail.com>]

On Jul 11, 11:14 pm, madmax_2...@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid
(madmax2069) wrote:
>  > GUEST wrote:
>
>  > Dear All,
>  > I've dedicated a page to the Apple mouse prototype I purchased a
> few
>  > months ago on eBay to the Huston brothers. Hi-Def pictures and some
>  > code welcome you @http://www.brutal-deluxe.fr/projects/mouse/index.html
>  >
>  > Antoine Vignau
>  > Brutal Deluxe Software
>
> It looks like it would be painful to
> use for long periods of time, but i do like it on how it looks.

Yes, I think the engineering prototype stage was unconcerned with
ergonomics so far.  So long as Steve Jobs didn't need to touch it,
anyway.  A couple of interesting and related stories from Andy
Hertzfeld:
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Apple_II_Mouse_Card.txt
and
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Shut_Up.txt