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From: royt@gatech.CSNET (Roy M Turner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Alternate mouse / keyboard ?
Message-ID: <2785@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 17:00:26 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.2785
Posted: Fri Feb 21 17:00:26 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Feb-86 05:52:01 EST
References: <3093@potomac.UUCP> <389@utastro.UUCP>
Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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Summary: loss of flexibility?

In article <389@utastro.UUCP>, fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray) writes:
> 
> 	A friend of mine has an optical mouse running on his
> Mac.  It has no (0) moving parts, and is an exact replacement.
> I'm in the process of finding out where he got it.
> 
> fbr@utastro.UUCP

We have some Xerox lisp machines here, and they have optical mice.  They
are pretty nice mice, but the problem is that they have to sit on a special
(in this case 8 1/2 x 11) mousepad, or they don't work.  I assume the 
optical mice for the Mac operate the same way.  

The thing I notice about this is that 1) you have to have the special
pad--this means that you either mount it on something heavy enough that moving
the mouse about doesn't move it, or that you glue it onto the surface of
whatever is supporting the Mac, and 2) that it is a real pain in the rear to
*always* have to use the same, small, area as a mousing area.

This isn't a flame against Xerox Lisp machines (although, if you really
*want* flames about them, send e-mail to me), or against the optical mouse for
the Mac...just thought you folks might like some info on optical rodents.

Roy