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From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: alternate mice
Message-ID: <665@parcplace.com>
Date: 22 Jan 90 21:02:28 GMT
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thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes:

>I also saw an ad for a cordless mouse.  I'm not sure what company produces it.
>Anyways, does anyone know much about this one?  I suppose it uses infrared 
>to transmit to the port; is that a correct assumption?  IF so, house does 

I tried it out at ComputerWare in Sunnyvale last weekend. It has 2
buttons on top, both serving as "the" mouse key, and a "thumb" button
on the side for right handed users that didn't seem to do anything when
I clicked it, but I later read on a box that it's a mouse motion
accelerator.  In terms of feel, it's pretty close to the regular ADB
mouse (it has a rubber coated ball near the palm end). In terms of
sensitivity, as long as you don't go far outside the horizontal plane
of the detector module, you can pretty much point the mouse in any
direction within a 180 degree range (and maybe even away from the
detector if there are surfaces that will reflect the IR beam, though
I'm not sure why you'd want to point the mouse away from the Mac -- but
there's no accounting for taste). The detector is a little box (whose
shape and color matches the mouse, naturally) with a long cord ending
in a 9-pin D connector, which was connected to the ADB port on a
DataDesk keyboard via an adapter cable.
-- 
Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
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