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From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Possible Jerky Mouse Fix
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.170140.594@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Jun 91 05:37:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.163648.12548@techbook.com> <1991Jun22.174710.13192@techbook.com>   <1991Jun23.201958.12639@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun23.201958.12639@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
> In article <1991Jun23.144653.7803@midway.uchicago.edu>, gile@quads.uchicago.edu (Aaron Giles) writes:
> |> Yes, but if you look at your DECstation mouse, you'll see that it operates
> |> quite differently from an Apple mouse -- no rolling ball to collect all that
> |> dust!  :-)
> No, the DECstation does not use an optical mouse. It _does_ have
> a rolling ball - it just seems to be a better design (from the
> point of view of not picking up dirt).

Interesting - what sort of DECStation mice do you have? Ours
don't have a ball at all - they have a rather intriguing setup
with two shafts (mybe the ball's *inside* the mouse??), one for
the horizontal, one for vertical. They have these funny sort of
angled "feet" on them which spin when moved across the desktop.
Rather neat really.

-- 
See ya
                                Nigel.
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