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From: micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson)
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Subject: Re: Optical Mice
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Date: 2 May 90 13:30:33 GMT
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In article <727@sky.COM> brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier) writes:
>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

>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 guess it's time people got acquainted to some other optical mice
apart from the Sun/Mouse Systems mouse. Xerox makes a truly wonderful
mouse that you can use on the supplied mouse pad (actually just a paper
with raster dots), on a Xerox-copy of this raster-paper, on a rasterized(sp?)
picture in a newspaper, on your jeans and just about anything else with
dots on.

And it doesn't care about whether you line it up or not.

It shouldn't be to expensive to build either. It contains one (1!) IC.

> -Brian

/Mikael

PS. Marc, hang in there.



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