Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu!boyd From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Advantages of Improved Mice? Message-ID: <1991May3.122514.16641@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 3 May 91 16:56:08 GMT References: <1991May1.213059.21272@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991May2.133114.26227@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department Lines: 35 In article , garrick@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (Kevin O. Garrick) writes: >You mentioned MouseDoubler2. I use MACELL3 and have had no >difficulty. It also has a built in screen saver. There are three >different speeds for the mouse and the screen saver is adjustable. I >have never had any trouble with my Atari mouse, either, but have seen >a few that sure needed help! >Kevin >-- Those that are interested in such things :-) might like this. There are now at least 4 different variants of the Atari mouse. Here is how to identify them (the "ball door" is the opening on the bottom of the mouse which allows the removal of the ball, the rollers are the bars that touch the ball and relay it's movement to the optical sensors. The rollers are visible when you take out the ball). 1. Sliding mouse door, thin metal rollers, made in Germany. 2. Sliding mouse door, thin metal rollers, made in Taiwan. 3. Rotating mouse door, large teflon rollers, made in Japan. 4. Sliding mouse door, small teflon rollers, made in ????. Numbers 1 and 2 are no longer sold, number 3 is the current ST mouse (and does NOT have the problems of the first two), and number 4 is white and comes with the TT. I have beaten the crap out of a number 3 for almost three years, and it still works perfectly. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------