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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optical Mice.
Message-ID: <2508@crash.cts.com>
Date: 3 May 90 12:44:47 GMT
References: <727@sky.COM> <8299@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <24469@usc.edu>
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <24469@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>
>The Amiga (any model) supports both types (machanical and optical) TODAY!!
>You can get the same mouse that Sun ships with their workstations (made
>by mouse systems, I believe), with a proper Amiga interface, from GfxBase,
>the makers of X11 for the Amiga.  I recall that Harv Laser really likes 
>that mouse, and Creative Computers might still sell it for $99. 
>
Or maybe even a little less than that now.  I'm still usin' my Boing mouse
and it's still working great (it was an Xmas '88 present to myself).
Stock Amiga mice just feel big and clunky and toy-like to me now.  What I
_would_ like to get someday would be a slightly larger mirrored pad for
the thing... although the one it comes with is REAL grippy and generally
stays put, it does, sometimes, wander on my desk a bit and I find myself
overrunning its borders and of course the mouse's LEDs don't register
against a wooden desk surface.  The only other thing I regret about the
Boing mouse is that now I can't use the nifty mousepad I got from INFO
magazine - the one with a clear window that holds command template
cards underneath it :-) but that's okay 'cuz Mark Brown (INFO's Senior
Editor) told me he always uses a Boing mouse too, although Benn
Dunnington (INFO's Owner/Publisher), he said, prefers the stock rodent
so INFO will probably keep publishing new cards to fit inside their 
pads.

Through lots of use I've found that the Boing mouse's felt feet need
brushing now and then to bring the nap back up but other than that,
and maybe a shot of Windex and a quick wipe with a towel across the pad,
no other maintenance.

Perhaps one of the neatest things about using a 3-button mouse is a
program written by Khalid Aldoseri called "switcher" which can be
activated by the middle button... I can't overemphasize enough the
wonderfulness of Switcher and if you've recently gotten yourself a
Boing, or other 3-button mouse, do whatever it takes to track down
this program and try it. 

Harv
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