Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!nayeri From: nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History? Message-ID: Date: 9 Oct 90 19:21:29 GMT References: <90274.094731ELE@psuvm.psu.edu> <26801@mimsy.umd.edu> <10592@goofy.Apple.COM> <2385@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> <1114@helens.Stanford.EDU> <13056@arisia.Xerox.COM> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: nayeri@cs.umass.edu Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 25 In-reply-to: ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM's message of 9 Oct 90 16:10:46 GMT In article <13056@arisia.Xerox.COM> ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM (Robert Ebert) writes: P.S. The weirdest mouse I've seen is the DECStation mouse. Looks like half a softball with a chord. It's really comfortable, though, or at least that was the impression I got in my 10 minutes of playing with it. This is funny. I think, a lot of the feel of the mouse depends on the length of your fingers. I have relatively short fingers, and I find Apple's mouse comfortable, however, a friend of mine that has very long fingers, likes the DEC mouse because you bend your fingers completely to use it. I personally don't use the digital mouse as much as the Mac mouse even though I use Digital workstations more often than the Mac (since X windows/Unix is not as mouse oriented as MacOS), so I can't tell which one I prefer. I have noticed, though, that because of my prior experience with the Mac mouse, I use the Digital mouse the wrong way. You are supposed to wrap your fingers on top of the digital mouse and click the buttons in front of the mouse rather than on top of the mouse. I know, this sound confusing, if you have seen the mouse, you would know what I mean... --farshad -- Farshad Nayeri Object Oriented Systems Group nayeri@cs.umass.edu Dept. of Computer and Information Science (413)545-0256 University of Massachusetts at Amherst