Mouses are computer hardware, not software!'' writes Nason Hansford, of Marrickville (mice, meece, mouses and mouzers, Column 8, Tuesday, and Nason is but one of many who leapt like starving cats upon Kel's squishy rodent). "I know a reasonable amount about mouses. The company that I work for has a very long and close association with them. While working for Xerox Palo Alto research centre in 1972, Bill English invented the ball mouse. Xerox was the first company to sell a computing device that used a mouse as an integrated part of the system, back in 1981." (no attachments please). Full Article at The Age