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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Wozinak designed the Apple II and II+
The Mouse/Icon/GUI interface was build and tested by Xerox's PARC (Palo Alto Reseach Center) in $100,000 mini computers years before Apple copied them. (Check the PARC Wiki. Shucks, I'm old enough to remember when the Apple II was first released. Along with the Radio Shack TRS-80 and the COmmodore PET)..
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From what I understand the PARC interface was rather convoluted though. Like you had to click one of the three mouse buttons to start a selection, then a different one to complete it.
And to be clear PARC did not develop the mouse itself. That was created more than half a decade earlier by a man named Douglas Engelbart (who envisioned it to be used alongside a
chorded keyboard).