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His groundbreaking presentation is on-line

You can see selected excerpts, or the entire 100 minutes at this on line site:

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

Remember, this was over 40 years ago and concepts of word processing we take for granted today were "new". I was working at General Electric Computer in Phoenix in the sixties and had great fun watching "time-sharing" develop and become a practical tool. GE, Bell Labs, Dartmouth College, and MIT put together some of the early systems for time-sharing before they were available by subscription to the general public.

I was fortunate to see Doug several times make presentations of his work when I worked in Silicon Valley. Since Doug was with Stanford Research Institutue (later SRI Inc.) he had access to the Stanford University facilities and could make very detailed AV presentations. He was very enthusiastic and fun to watch. I saw the mouse demonstrations, but never had a chance to put my hands on a mouse till Apple put out a machine using one and I tried it out at an Apple store in San Jose. If Steve Jobs were with us still, imagine the stories he could tell about how Doug Englebart influenced his career and products at Apple!

Truly a great computer scientist; many can give thanks for his work in the industry.

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Thanks for the mouse, Doug Engelbart...RIP
His groundbreaking presentation is on-line

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