This day in history - December 9
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:13 pm
1968 - A team of computer researchers publicly demonstrated the computer mouse and other innovations for the first time, at a convention of scientists and engineers in San Francisco. Doug Engelbart was the genius behind some of those developments.
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For those who were computer users decades ago, the progress represented by these innovations seemed miraculous.
In 1968, you punched out computer programs on cards, using the functional equivalent of a typewriter. Then you turned the cards in at a window, and got a printout hours or days later. Most of the time, the printout indicated that your program contained an error.
You never actually touched a computer. That was reserved to the 'high priests" of computer science.
The idea of an individual owning a computer was preposterous. They cost from $20,000 to several million, at a time when $10,000 a year was a very handsome salary.
- Jim
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For those who were computer users decades ago, the progress represented by these innovations seemed miraculous.
In 1968, you punched out computer programs on cards, using the functional equivalent of a typewriter. Then you turned the cards in at a window, and got a printout hours or days later. Most of the time, the printout indicated that your program contained an error.
You never actually touched a computer. That was reserved to the 'high priests" of computer science.
The idea of an individual owning a computer was preposterous. They cost from $20,000 to several million, at a time when $10,000 a year was a very handsome salary.
- Jim
Think about that the next time ya open up a laptop 