Flashback 1983: The Microsoft Mouse

• BÃ¥seline

  4 Feb 07, 18:08

  Does this peripheral look familiar to you? Let me refresh your memory. Back in 1983, Microsoft released the Microsoft Mouse. Packaged with Microsoft Word, it came with three programs: a musicial tutorial, teaching the user how to use a mouse; The Game of Life, a population simulator to familarize users with using a command line; and the Multi-Toll NotePad, text-editing software.
  
  There were two versions available of the Microsoft Mouse: the first was for use with the IBM PC and came with a plug-in board. The other was portable across any MS-DOS system, which utilized low-power CMOS technology.
  
  How much did the Microsoft Mouse cost back then? USD$195! We've got one in the office under lockdown.
  
  Source: HERE
  
  
• FireIce

  4 Feb 07, 18:09

  it looks kinda cute..............
• Darkness_hacker99

  4 Feb 07, 18:12

  Moth ball or lazer type?
• BÃ¥seline

  4 Feb 07, 18:15

  Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:

  Moth ball or lazer type?

  1983 dehsssssss
• lolxzxz

  4 Feb 07, 18:23

  look like got 2 eyes
• dork3d

  4 Feb 07, 18:34

  Originally posted by lolxzxz:

  look like got 2 eyes

  It's a mouse, what do you expect? Six eyes and eight legs? Of course it's has only two eyes...
• ndmmxiaomayi

  4 Feb 07, 18:38

  Me not yet born... cool mouse.
• erijazz

  4 Feb 07, 18:39

  Microsoft Mouse in 1983????
  
  I believed Mouse is not out in the market then... until about 1988...