From: decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!nagle@uunet.UU.NET (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Who invented the MOUSE ?
Date: 2 May 91 07:05:09 GMT




    The mouse was a latecomer as a pointing device.  The first pointing
device developed for computer input was a gun.  SAGE air-defense
consoles of the 1950s used large metal light-guns to indicate targets.
One can be seen in the Computer Museum in Boston.

                                        John Nagle