Designed by Douglas Engelbart, the mouse was auctioned with a coding keyset.
One of the first mouse prototypes designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart sold for a whopping $178,936 at a recently concluded auction, making it perhaps the most expensive mouse sold on the planet. The prototype was sold along with its cord and a serial connector to communicate with the computer.
, the mouse and a coding keyset pair is much like the ones that Engelbart used in his iconic 1968 demonstration. Famously known as the "Mother of All Demos", this was where Engelbart spoke about a host of things that are common in computing today ranging fromto dynamic file linking, shared-screed collaboration, and of course, the public debut of the mouse.
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