Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it? Message-ID: <1991Mar18.165824.13199@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 18 Mar 91 16:58:24 GMT References: <1991Mar10.022648.13321@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar10.070137.6439@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 21 In article <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> rblewitt@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. > >Rick Try cleaning the mouse pad more regularly. I use a SUN 3/160M and it has nearly the same kind of fuzzies on the bottom as does my Boing! optical mouse. I have never noticed a problem.