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From: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optical Mice.
Summary: I think they're a pain...
Message-ID: <727@sky.COM>
Date: 2 May 90 21:03:01 GMT
References: <18184@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Organization: SKY Computers, Chelmsford MA
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In article <18184@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>
>   I kind of wish Commodore, with the Amiga 3000, would set a standard
>in the PC market by using an optical mouse with it.  I find mechanical
>mice to be very aggrevating.  I use a BOING! mouse here, and it is an
>absolutely wonderful mouse to use.  But all of the systems at school --
>including the big & expensive workstations, all all of the MAC systems
>-- all use machanical mice.  They wear out easily,and develop a "skid"
>so that they start to not work in certain directions.
>

Well, I have to disagree here.  I have a SparcStation with one of the Sun-
supplied optical mice, and I find it to be quite the pain in the *ss to use.
Not only does it have this tiny little grid you have to stay on, but you also
have to keep the grid *exactly* lined up with the way the mouse is facing.  
I know people who like them, and others who don't.  For my money, I'd rather
have the mechanical mouse that lets me move in any direction with ease.

>   Food For Though: did you know that the mouse that Sun includes with
>their SparcStations and the BOING! mouse are exactly the same mouse?
>Apparently, Sun and whoever-produced-the-BOING!-mouse get them from
>the same source.  
> 

They appear to be Mouse Systems mice to me...

 -Brian