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Subject: Re: Optical Mice.
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Date: 3 May 90 02:00:11 GMT
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>Item:7541  About: Optical Mice. 
>Author: [Marc Barrett] (*Masked*@owl.ecil.iastate.edu)
>Date: Wed May  2 09:36:07 1990

Hmm.. (nice post Marc , rational , not to upsetting and valid.)

>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.

I have had the mouse on my 1000 since I purchased it (the fist week they
shipped) .. it has developed NO problems (I clean it every now and again)
at all. The mechanical mouse on my unix station has more that 3 years on it
(a LOGITECH) , with none of the problems you describe.

I find optical mice picky about orientation of the mouse pad , limitin (only
move on pad) .. and easily confused by dust and so on ..

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