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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it?
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.234143.23626@cs.cornell.edu>
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References: <1991Mar16.210658.10671@eecs.wsu.edu> <53147@cornell.UUCP> <1991Mar19.195939.9101@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 23:41:43 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.195939.9101@dg-rtp.dg.com> poirier@ellerbe.rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) writes:
>In article <53147@cornell.UUCP> johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes:
>>Depends on the mouse.  The Mouse Systems M3 on my Amiga (same as on Sun 3's)
>>works very nicely even turned about 45 degrees, and is comfortable to my
>>tastes.
>"Taste" is certainly the key word; each to his own, but be careful here.
>With respect to the Mouse Systems optical mouse (same as on DG AViiONs too),
>what happens is, if you angle the mouse (less than 45 degrees wrt the pad),
>then move the mouse straight along its axis, the cursor moves at an angle
>across the screen.  In other words, the output does not care what angle
>(up to 45 degrees) you are holding the mouse at; the pad axes take precedence.
>Now if this is what you want, fine.  But for my taste, I want the cursor to
>track along the mouse axes.  The doggone pad is always getting cocked, which
>makes the mouse go crooked until you move the pad back.  So I taped the pad
>to the desk... now there's a permanent part of the desk usable *only* by
>the mouse.  Grr.

Actually, by "comfortable" I was referring to the mouse shape.  However,
"taste" is indeed a key word.  Mr. Poirier would rather have the control
axis relative to the mouse.  I prefer the control axis relative to the
pad because I jump back and forth between the mouse and keyboard a great
deal and am annoyed when I must repeatedly reorient the mouse.  Different
strokes for different folks!
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The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.