It features a graphical user interface (GUI), a mouse, Ethernet networking, and the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously. It is one of the first computers to use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor and has a bit-mapped display.

Apr 27, 2011 · 1981: The first integrated mouse intended for use with a personal computer makes its appearance with the Xerox Star workstation. The name "mouse" derived from the device's …

Mar 19, 2016 · One of the earliest examples, which has since become a legend in the Valley, is how an upstart Apple seized on the innovations Steve Jobs saw at Xerox PARC to create the personal computer market.

May 17, 2011 · According to Gladwell, when Steve Jobs visited Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the late 1970’s, he was amazed by what he saw: a demonstration of a new three-button computer mouse. The only...

On April 27, 1981, the world’s first commercial computer mouse arrived, attached to a hugely expensive, wholly futuristic personal computer that utterly failed to sell. The computer was the Xerox...

Apr 27, 2015 · We mentioned in an earlier “Today in Media History” that computer mouse technology can be traced back to the 1960s. But it wasn’t until April 27, 1981 that the mouse was introduced...

Apr 27, 2015 · The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that’s what the device was eventually called when it debuted as part of a personal computer station, first sold by the Xerox Corporation on this day,...

Jan 30, 2025 · In March 1973, Xerox Corporation announced the Xerox Alto computer, considered the first workstation (or personal computer), as well as the first computer with a graphical user interface. The workstation also came with the first mass-produced mouse in the history of computers, the Xerox Alto Mouse.

Did Jobs steal the idea of the mouse from Xerox? Not exactly. Xerox never owned the idea of the mouse. The researchers at the PARC had actually gotten the idea for the mouse from Douglas Engelbart a Stanford Research Institute researcher.

Feb 6, 2025 · The first computer mouse was a mechanical mouse with two rollers on the bottom to move a cursor in two dimensions (x-axis and y-axis) on a screen. Later, technologies like the optomechanical mouse and optical mouse were invented and released by others.