Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!ads.com!sparkyfs!hercules!gilham From: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Optical Mice. Message-ID: Date: 4 May 90 16:49:12 GMT References: <18184@snow-white.udel.EDU> <5108@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1359@quintus.UUCP> Sender: usenet@csl.sri.com Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 18 In-reply-to: pds@quintus.UUCP's message of 3 May 90 22:48:28 GMT I have a Xerox lisp machine that has one of these attached to it. They are nice. They never get dirty and they always feel right. My Amiga mouse had a tendency to get a sort of hop in it when it got dirty. Sometimes it was very hard to get rid of this hop. I also prefer this Xerox mouse over the Sun mouse I use at work, because I find myself constantly adjusting the Sun mouse, and hardly ever adjusting the Xerox mouse. (This could be a function of the user interface, though.) I think it would be easy to replace the Amiga mouse with the Xerox mouse. I'm pretty sure it runs on 5v like the Amiga mouse and pretty sure the outputs are ttl compatible. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com If it can be shown that the machinery has come into the world as a curse, there is no reason whatever for for our respecting it because it is a marvellous and practical and productive curse. -G. K. Chesterton