History: 40 years computer mouse, apple first user

Not to be too critical, but I would say there's history and then there's real history.
By 1981, Apple was the dominant personal computer manufacturer with over 90% of the world market conquered by the Apple ][. IBM by then was getting the notion that the small desktop computer might amount to something and started their own project in collaboration with Bill Gates and Co. (We didn't pay any attention to rumors about this.) By the end of that year, It was clear to Jobs, Mike Scott and myself that the Lisa project was badly bogged down and not likely to emerge. So we formed the Macintosh group to do an end run on Lisa.
About this time, Steve Jobs and I went up to Xerox Park to talk with some of the research staff who believed they had some good ideas but so little corporate support that they were afraid they'd be shut down with nothing to show for their hard work. There it was we saw the mouse.
It was almost laughable. Such a kluge I've rarely seen. It had three tiny ball bearings with sensors all over and didn't work. They thought it was a great advance in human interface and I just took their word for it. Steve thought the idea was great. I wasn't so sure but Steve convinced Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, and they enthusiastically pursued the idea.So I gave up resisting.
The problem of making a real, manufacturable mouse for a tolerable price that would be reliable went to Jerry Manock. Jerry had designed the Apple ][ case and the floppy disk drive case and he was our man for the style, the Apple look. He had two graduate students from Stanford working for him and the three of them went off in a corner to ponder. Some months later, they came back with a marvelous design so simple and elegant that it has never been improved upon. All I did was bless the electronics and we had a living, breathing device. Too much credit cannot be given to these three designers, in my humble opinion. The difference between what they accomplished and the original mouse was night and day.
As we all know today, the mouse was integral to the original Macintosh, and was to a great extent responsible for that machine's success. Andy has written about the mouse from his perspective and those interested should consult his book. Jerry Manock is alive and well, so I understand, and lives outside of Brattleboro, Vermont, I think. I can't remember the names of the two young men who worked with him and I may be off on dates and spellings, for which failings I ask your tolerance.