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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
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Subject: Re: Losing the Mousie (Re: Apple Hard Disk 20 Comments...)
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 13:03:50 EST
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> One other thing, (this may be my hardware problem but I doubt it), is there
> a bug which causes the cursor to cease responding to mouse movement but
> leave Command keys functioning? I have lost count of the number of times,
> that I have had to reboot.(A 3 minute plus experience remember!)

Usually the symptom you describe is caused by screwing up the serial chip
from some piece of software or another.  Remember that Apple saved a few
bucks on inputs by using "spare" modem control lines on the serial chip as
mouse inputs...

					Bart Massey
					..tektronix!reed!bart