They are part of everyday life and are even being gradually replaced by touchpads and touchscreens. Yet the first desktop computer to come with a mouse is expected to cost far more than the latest ...

The Apple Lisa 1 was a commercial failure when it launched in 1983, but could now sell at auction for £25,000 The first ever computer to come with a mouse has emerged for sale for £25,000 Credit: ...

Thirty years ago today, the first computer mouse to be used alongside a personal computer appeared. On April 27, 1981, the integrated mouse made its debut with the Xerox Star Information System. First ...

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The man who invented the computer mouse, revolutionising the way people work, play and communicate, has died at 88. Doug Engelbart died from acute kidney failure at his California home after a long ...

The computer mouse is 40 years old. Hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers on 9 December 1968. The first mouse that Dr Engelbart used in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For the time, it was a high-tech affair. On December 9 1968, Douglas Engelbart, a computer scientist at Stanford ...

The man behind the computer mouse, who transformed the way people work, play and communicate, has died at 88. Technology visionary Doug Engelbart died from acute kidney failure at his California home ...

The co-creator of the computer mouse, William English, has died aged 91. The engineer and inventor was born in 1929 in Kentucky and studied electrical engineering at university before joining the US ...

Swipe, swipe, pinch-zoom. Fifth-grader Josephine Nguyen is researching the definition of an adverb on her iPad and her fingers are flying across the screen. Her 20 classmates are hunched over their ...

Engelbart died on Tuesday night, according to an email sent from his daughter, Christiana, to The Computer History Museum in California, where Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005. Ms Engelbart did ...