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From: david@ztivax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Alternate mouse / keyboard ?
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 13:35:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 13:35:00 1986
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Nf-From: ztivax!david    Mar  4 18:35:00 1986


 have been using them Xerox (Siemens here in Europe) machines that Macs
are a rip-off of.  Some have optical mice, some don't.  The optical
mice will work on seemingly any surface: formica, wood, paper...

I don't know how they work either...

One complaint is they sometimes freak-out and send the cursor racing off
somewhere, but usually they are very precise.

I only wish Apple had retained many of the features of the Xerox developed
system on the Mac!  I am amazed by the ultimate flexibility of this thing 
(Xerox calls the system XDE or Tajo or several other names - they seem rather disorganized about pushing the system outside of Xerox).

David Smyth
Free and proud of it