Optical Mouse For The Xerox Star
Part #: 109K60Number on bottom of Mouse

Mouse Installation Instructions

Xerox Optical card(mouse pad)

Original Box

This is one of the FIRST COMMERCIALLY RELEASED MOUSE! It came with a Xerox Star Information System (computer). After sales on those Xerox computers flopped the mouse landed on Apple where they madea much cheaper model built by Dean Hovey, Jim Yurchenko, and others.
This is an AMAZING COLLECTOR\'S ITEMand PIECE OF HISTORY! I expect this to be in a Museum exhibition one day.
Original box and a label on it saying \"pointer\" with its part number. XD
Released in April 1981, the Xerox Star 8010 Information System was the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). The device was composed of advances in hardware and software technology that had been made during the Alto research project at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The Star GUI used a concept now known as “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG), in which actions made by the mouse were transferred directly to navigation on the screen, where icons of folders and documents represented areas that could be acted upon. The Star was not considered a commercial success, as only around 25,000 devices were sold. Designed as a workstation within a larger networked office suite, the Star 8010 was not intended for home or small business use. The Star was expensive, with each workstation selling for $16,000; a complete suite raised the total price tag as high as $50,000 to $100,000. Nevertheless, the Star is significant for bringing the GUI and mouse to marketFIRST, showing that these technologies were viable and presaging the success of such platforms as the Macintosh and Windows.