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From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it?
Message-ID: <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 07:49:18 GMT
References: <1991Mar10.022648.13321@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar10.070137.6439@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <stevek.3484@amiglynx.UUCP>
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In article <stevek.3484@amiglynx.UUCP> stevek@amiglynx.UUCP (Steve Krulewitz) writes:
>Though I have never used an optical mouse on an Amiga, the functionality
>shouldn't be much different than the IBM.  Probably the best thing about an
>optical mouse is that there are no moving parts which gives less chance of
>breakage.  But with an optical mouse, you need a special mouse mat - and if
>you lose or damage that the mouse is useless.  I dont think its worth the

I have used optical mice quite a lot on Silicon Graphics
workstations, and I noticed one serious flaw that most people fail
to mention.  On mechanical mice, there are plastic pads on the
bottom to make them slide smoothly across a rough pads.  On optical
mice, there are fuzzy pads that help them slide across the smooth
pad.  These pads will gum up with the same gunk that screws up the
mechanical ones, except that these pads are impossible to fully
clean, and I have never seen replacements for these pads.

Rick