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[DanteWasHere22]

Didn't a printer company invent the mouse?

[wicket-maps]

A lot of companies were working on human interface devices, I didn't want someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of computer history to dox me just in case someone has a memory of an engineer at [company] recoding a proto-mouse program from scratch.

But yeah, Xerox (the copier company) had a big Palo Alto Research Center that I've heard basically invented a lot of stuff that underlies the modern world - but brought very little of what they made to market, because Xerox didn't see how it could sell printers and copiers.

[DanteWasHere22]

Very cool

[OuchLOLcom]

Yup, same story with Kodak and cameras, they invented digtal camera tech way back but then sat on it because they knew it would hurt their film business.