Apple has always had a troubled history with mice. Not everyone liked the circular pattern of the original iMac, the Mighty Mouse was criticized for frequent crashes with its ball and Magic Mouse charging these days… well, I better not to mention it.
But despite this, we must remember that it was Apple that popularized the mouse and its cursor interface on personal computers. And while the company didn’t invent it, it all started with the original Apple mouse in 1983. Let’s review the life of that mouse and what happened to it.
A revolutionary idea with a bad start
The first mouse released by Apple was called the Lisa mouse, as is (although its model number was A9M0050). their appearance beige corresponded to the design of computers of the time, with very square and industrial edges; and a single button. The connecting interface was a DE-9 port, of which no trace remains. It was sold together with the Apple Lisa, one of Apple’s first computers, for $9.9995. You don’t even have to adjust for inflation, do you? It was an overpriced computer for the 80s.
I insist on not minimizing the exploit: it is the first computer which was sold with a mouse and a graphic interface with the cursor on the screen. The normal thing in those days was control screens and a keyboard, nothing more. It was such a great revolution that Steve Jobs remembered it just as much as opening speech
But the Apple Lisa still hasn’t sold well. It was too expensive and the price difference with IBM computers of the time was too great. And with it, the first Apple mouse ended up going down in museum history. It was quickly replaced by the Macintosh mouse, a mouse that appeared with the original Macintosh and just turned 39.
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