Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!becker!censor!comspec!tvcent!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!watcgl!andrewt From: andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Optical Mice. Message-ID: Date: 5 May 90 19:19:23 GMT References: <727@sky.COM> <8299@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <24469@usc.edu> <2508@crash.cts.com> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu (System Processes) Organization: PAMI Lab - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: hrlaser@crash.cts.com's message of 3 May 90 12:44:47 GMT In article <2508@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes: >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 We have optical mice for the Xerox 1186 lisp stations here. We used these machines for undergrad courses and naturally didn't want the pads to be wrecked so we _photocopied_ them, covered the photocopies in plastic, and taped them to the table. They worked fine. I have no idea why. Maybe this should be in alt.folklore.computers? :-) -- Andrew Thomas andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus