e45 – Mice

Simple Beep

English - August 27, 2016 04:01 - 1 hour - 41.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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From solid steel balls to unusable hockey pucks to sleek pieces of sushi, we cover all of Apple's mouse designs. And we couldn't stop there, so we threw in some trackpads and third-party pointers for good measure.

Followup
G4 Cube
yes, it has a handle
"Behold the G4 Cube, Apple's most epic computer ever"

iMac carrying case
buy one on Amazon!

I’ve had enough internet today… pic.twitter.com/c9O6ck4KC0

— Alex Vanderzon (@alexvanderzon) August 18, 2016

Patrick Blampied's iOS Macintosh Portable
demo video

@simple_beep @gruber love this ep. Still using an iOS Mac Portable daily for writing. Same alps as the good AEK II. pic.twitter.com/G05qVCO0vA

— Patrick Blampied (@patrickblampied) August 15, 2016

lead-acid batteries
Mac Portable battery weighed ~2 pounds
PowerBook 100 had one too [manual pdf]

Mouse history

previously: e6 – Keyboards
elsewhere: 512px on Apple mice
elsewhere: Apple Mouse Museum
interview about the first mouse
Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos"
Xerox Alto mouse

Apple mice

Macintosh Mouse
DE-9 connector
1983 Microsoft Mouse