Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!lemsys!clemon
From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The Amiga Mouse
Message-ID: <5020.663098009@lemsys.UUCP>
Date: Sat Jan 05 11:53:29 1991
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
In-Reply-To: tym@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Tim MacKenzie)

In a message posted on 1 Jan 91 22:47:30 GMT,
tym@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Tim MacKenzie) wrote:
TM>In <17932@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
TM>>>>In article <hbrinch.0146@icoast.UUCP> hbrinch@icoast.UUCP (Henrik Brinch) writes:
TM>>> 
TM>
TM>>I have had 3 mice in 3 years. There are 2 major problems with the Amiga mice.
TM>
TM>>2) The "bubble switch" contacts are very poor, and often only marginally
TM>>functional. Almost every Amiga mouse requires that the buttons be pressed
TM>>in a certain way (which varies with each mouse), and it is possible to 
TM>>depress the buttons without the press registering. On my current mouse,
TM>>this happens if the fingers ride to far back on the buttons.
TM>
TM>The "bubble switch" contacts are rubbish and always have been. Why C= did
TM>not put proper micro-switch buttons in puzzles me. [ Maybe the poor quality
TM>of the rollers meant that the buttons would outlast them ;) ]. I installed
TM>micro-switch buttons in my mouse ~8 months ago, cost about $15 Oz, and can
TM>recommend them to all. They simply replace the existing switches and require
TM>a little filing down of the push-rods.
TM>
TM>Greetz.
TM>Tim MacKenzie
TM>tym@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au

	I bought my B2000 in '87 (REV4.2) and my mouse has real switches
in it.  They're little button switches that are depressed by the same
"arm" system used to depress the bubbles however.  Believe me, they're not 
as good as you think.  While I haven't had
any lasting problems with them, occasionally (frequently sometimes), they
refuse to work unless I hammer and then wiggle the button.  Sometimes they
double or triple click all by themselves.  Usually this problem goes away
after a few days and some contact cleaner however.  While better than
bubble these microswitches are really not to great either.  We do have to
realize though that switch life is rated in operations and mice are
something used ALOT on the Amiga.  What I would like to see is real
switches used, like Microsoft mice for the IBM machines.  They have a
definite feel when contact is made and a nice soft travel that's easy to
work with.

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