Conclusion
Around 1981
Xerox included mice with its Xerox Star, based on the mouse used in
the 1970s on the Alto computer at Xerox PARC. Sun Microsystems,
Symbolics, Lisp Machines Inc., and Tektronix also shipped
workstations with mice, starting in about 1981. Later, inspired by
the Star, Apple Computer released the Apple Lisa, which also used a
mouse. However, none of these products achieved large-scale success.
Only with the release of the Apple Macintosh in 1984 did the mouse
see widespread use.
The
Macintosh design, commercially successful and technically
influential, led many other vendors to begin producing mice or
including them with their other computer products (by 1986, Atari ST,
Commodore Amiga, Windows 1.0, GEOS for the Commodore 64, and the
Apple IIGS). The widespread adoption of graphical user interfaces in
the software of the 1980s and 1990s made mice all but indispensable
for controlling computers.
In November
2008, Logitech built their billionth mouse.
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