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From: rnelson@eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it?
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.210658.10671@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 21:06:58 GMT
Reply-To: rnelson@yoda.UUCP (Roger Nelson)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) writes:
>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.

Yes this is most annoying.  When it gets bad enough, I will try replacing
the pads with a thin felt or the soft side of some velcro.

Also, the cursor behaves erratically on the SGIs when the optical mouse pad 
or the mouse is turned more than degress.

I don't like optical mice at all.  
IMHO, The Amiga mouse is the mouse comfortable mouse to work with and 
the HP vectra mouse is the most uncomfortable.

BTW, does anyone know why the SGI optical mice have two sets of LED/LDD's?