Computer Mice or Mouses?

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/21/2012 2:41 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> back then. The 1984 claim made no sense whatsoever, but many thanks to
> Garson for finding the actual citations that prove it.

There is reason to believe that many people, including many
"authorities", believe that if it didn't happen to/in/by IBM, it didn't
happen.

Which is sad.  When I first developed an interest in such things, the
generic term for "computer" in the popular lexicon was "univac".


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