Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!manuel!ccadfa!prolix!dac From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it? Message-ID: <18d64cd1.ARN1359@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 16 Mar 91 11:19:13 GMT References: <1991Mar10.022648.13321@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar10.070137.6439@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Organization: More like Mis~, really. Lines: 29 In article <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, Richard Blewitt writes: > In article 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. Turn the mouse pad over, and then drag the mouse over the rough surface - it removes lots of the gunk, and makes the mouse nice and smooth again. [Don't forget to turn the mouse pad back over when you're finished. :-)] > Rick Dac -- David Andrew Clayton. // _l _ _ dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au *or*|I post.I am. Canberra, Australia.\X/ (_](_l(_ ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!dac@munnari.oz