The Smaky 100 Mouse and the History of the Mouse at EPFL

Discover the Smaky computers from French-speaking Switzerland with a presentation on the work carried out at EPFL on the development of the mouse. Demonstration of the Smaky 100 with the Depraz mouse.

The Smaky mouse was one of the world’s earliest computer mice, developed in Switzerland by Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard for the Smaky computers at EPFL in Lausanne from the 1970s onwards.

The Smaky 100, released in 1984, is powered by a Motorola 68000 processor. Its distinctive feature was the first-ever separation of the monitor, computer and keyboard. A large proportion of the 1,500 Smaky 8s produced were used in schools in French-speaking Switzerland.