The translucent plastic housed a circuit board and two tone rollerball that could be seen easily. Shipped with the original iMac, this new mouse used USB, as the ADB standard was left out of the iMac by Steve Jobs and company, looking to move forward from legacy standards. Image via Shrine of Apple 1998: Apple USB Mouse (Model M4848) The Apple Desktop Mouse II would be the standard Apple mouse for just over 6 years, shipping with multiple lines of Macintosh computers.Ī black version was produced and shipped with the Macintosh TV: Its rounded top and small profile made it feel much smaller than previous versions. The ADB II mouse brought a radical redesign to Apple’s pointer device. 1992: Apple Desktop Mouse II (Model M2706) Many users who were used to the old feel used this mouse for years to come, ignoring its successor that came in 1992. With the same rectangular body as Apple’s previous peripherals, the original ADB mouse added Apple Desktop Bus to the mouse to ship alongside the Apple IIGS. In 1988, the Mouse IIc was revamped, moving to the Platinum look. The IIc could use the mouse as a pointer or joystick, depending on what application was running at the time on the machine. This mouse was a tad sleeker than the Macintosh mouse, and had a slightly different color. Just a few months after the Macintosh was released, the Apple IIc was introduced, bringing the mouse to the Apple II family. Originally beige, the Macintosh mouse came in Platinum after 1987. It connected to the original Macintosh via a DE–9 port, as it was before the ADB standard had been invented. Not unlike the Lisa mouse, the Macintosh Mouse featured a (now rubber, as opposed to steel) rollerball with a single, rectangle-shaped button in the center of its top. This is the mouse that put mice on the map. Ultimately a failure, the Lisa was priced at $9,995. Often considered to be ahead of its time, the Lisa also offered protected memory, limited multitasking, hard disk support and more. A year before the Macintosh was released, Apple’s Lisa introduced the concept of a GUI and mouse to Apple’s customers.
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