Microsoft BallPoint Mouse
date: label: date made
content: ca 1991
name: label: maker
content: Microsoft Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This white plastic mouse has a roller ball, four buttons, and a coiled cord. There also is a gray plastic and metal piece that could be used to hold the mouse to the side of a microcomputer keyboard. An additional cylindrical piece, which allowed one to roll the mouse so that it stayed at a desired angle, apparently is missing. Everything fits in a black leather case.
label: Description
content: A mark on the back of the mouse reads in part: Microsoft BallPoint mouse FCC ID: CeKB (/) Patent No. 4,866,602 Patents Pending (/) PIN: 13340 Made in Japan. Patent 4,866,602 is for a form of power supply.
label: Description
content: There is a black leather zippered carrying case marked: Microsoft. It also is marked: Part No. 13342 (/) Made in U.S.A.
label: Description
content: U.S. Patent 4,866,602 was issued in 1989. Microsoft received a trademark for the term BallPoint , as applied to computer peripherals, in 1991 and first used it in commerce at that time.
label: Description
content: For informaion, see https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=224.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.15
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.15
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 2 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 4 in; 5.715 cm x 13.335 cm x 10.16 cm