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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
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Subject: Of mice and measurements
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 23:03:23 EDT
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Browsing throught the technical manual for the Tandy 1000, I came across
the following under the section about the mouse/calendar board:

	Maximum motion allowed before it is detected is 1/80 of an inch
	along either axis. This distance is called a mickey.

Is the "mickey" a normal measurement of mouse granularity or a unit made up
by Tandy? Has anyone else seen it referred to before?

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