The PC mouse underwent a lengthy development process after the prototype was built to the first designs of Douglas Engelbart in 1963 – a device which was actually housed in a wooden case. It was a Swiss man, Daniel Borel, who invented the first model ready for series production. This was in 1981 – the year in which Logitech was founded by Borel and two colleagues from Stanford University. Their base then was a farmhouse in a village with the oddly appropriate name of Apples, close to Lausanne. The company’s very first mouse, the Logitech P4, was introduced in 1982, and quickly proved to be the ideal navigational aid for a computer’s graphical interface.
With sales hitting the one billion mark as long ago as 2008, it’s quite probable now that every PC user’s hand has touched a Logitech mouse at some time.
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“Invented in Switzerland. Where the same innovative spirit drives textile progress today.”
The brilliance of the PC mouse invention lies in the creation of a simple link between man and machine, user and computer. In fact, the mouse can be considered the crucial break-through in PC user-friendliness, through the familiar click and glide functions.
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