Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!stever
From: stever@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Imants Golts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: optical mouse
Message-ID: <3522@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Sep 88 03:15:02 GMT
References: <42900019@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <42900020@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <216@orion1.hf.intel.com>
Reply-To: stever@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (steve rogers)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <42900020@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> leung@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>>It seems that Mouse Systems has a corner on the market.  Several
>>people gave some good arguments against optical mice (most having
>>to do with the special pad required) but none that really applied
>>to my own use.  (Now to find a cheap mail order place.)

>As an aside, I found that it's pretty easy to create a replacement for
>a Mouse Systems' Mouse pad.  Xeroxing it will work, though not well.
>What we wound up doing was writing a PostScript program to print one on
>our Apple LaserWriter.  It worked almost as well as the real thing, and
>we could vary the resolution and the size of the pad at will.  (It was
>also pretty cheap.  :-)

Then there is the old venetian blind trick.  It works!  Sort of.
Mini-blinds is a slight refinement.  8-) | (-8

--sdr

If anybody is interested, I can mail them a copy of the program to do
it, though it's a pretty trivial thing to write.