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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Optical Mousepads (Re: Alternate mouse / keyboard ?)
Message-ID: <2587@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 04:31:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 04:31:02 1986
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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> 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.
> 
> 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.  

I've used an optical mouse which worked fine on an apparently featureless
desktop, although a pad was supplied with it...  Lord knows how the thing
worked -- I sure never figured it out...
-- 
					Bart Massey
					..tektronix!reed!bart