Mouse Systems Corporation
Mouse Systems Corporation, formerly Rodent Associates, was founded in 1982 by Steve Kirsch, inventor of the optical mouse. In addition to being a vehicle for Kirsch's invention, the company was responsible for bringing the mouse to the IBM PC for the first time.
Like all early optical mice, their debut product relied on a special mousepad printed with a square grid of tracking lines: as the device moved over the pad, LED feedback was processed by an on-boarch microchip, which in turn supplied the PC with machine-readable tracking data via an RS-232 serial port. An external power supply was required.
In 1984 MSC released PC Paint, the first mouse-driven image manipulation program for the IBM PC. PC Paint was developed for the company by stub. You can help BambooWeb by .
