Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!bj From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it? Message-ID: <19931@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 17 Mar 91 07:24:48 GMT References: <1991Mar10.022648.13321@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar10.070137.6439@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 37 In article <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) writes: >In article stevek@amiglynx.UUCP (Steve Krulewitz) writes: >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. I use both the standard Amiga mouse (my heavily used, 1985 A-1000 mouse is still going strong - I use a legal tablet as a mouse pad and the teflon feet seem to like this a lot) and the Boing Mouse (on my A3000 at work.) Both are fine. The optical mouse 'feet' do gum up regularly but I find that I can clean them pretty well with a -soft- and dry toothbrush. In a pinch, dragging your thumbnail gently back and forth over the felt pad will knock the "big chunks" loose :) Anyway, I was always one to say "optical mouse? No way". Then fortune gave me one and I have grown to like it. One (small) advantage to the optical mice is that they have more friction against their pad than do the roller mice. This can help if you use autopoint or do things that requires the mouse pointer to stay in place. bj >Rick ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brian Jackson Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga Inc. GEnie: B.J. | | bj@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com or ...{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj | | "We defy augury" | -----------------------------------------------------------------------