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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optical Mice.
Message-ID: <1359@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 22:48:28 GMT
References: <18184@snow-white.udel.EDU> <5108@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <5108@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>Or are there some optical mice that don't need a special mousepad

Xerox has an optical mouse that uses a pad that you can copy in a
photocopier.  This means you can make it as big as you want, even cover
your desk with it.  It also slides much more smoothly than any Sun mouse
(same the Boing mouse) I've ever used, since it's just sliding on paper.
And it doesn't get as confused as the Sun mouse if it's not oriented
parallel to the mouse pad.  If it were available for the Amiga, I'd buy
one.  (Hear that, Dale?)
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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