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Subject: Re: Serial Mouse
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Date: 9 Nov 88 02:37:47 GMT
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In article <1416@ge-dab.GE.COM> suppe@ge-dab.GE.COM (Dennis Suppe) writes:
| I am in the market for a 3 button serial mouse.
| 
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| I have worked with both of these on Apollo and Sun workstations, and
| prefer the Mouse Systems Optical Mouse.

I use one of these at work and I love it.

|    Does anyone know if these are compatible with the Microsoft Mouse?

Mouse Systems is

|    Can the Mouse Systems Mouse act like a Logitech Mouse and vice versa?

Don't know.
|    Does anyone know where I can get a Mouse Systems 3 button Optical mouse?
|       ( I have only been able to find the 2 button type )

I didn't even know that they made two button mouses.  Try Priority 1.  They
occaisionaly advertise in Byte.  They have both the bus and serial versions.

To anyone out there considering a mouse, I highly recommend the MSC (formerly
Mouse Systems) mouse.  A joy to use, and they specify all the I/O in the 
documentation (I love the units of measurement for mouse movement -- mickeys).
In addition, they provide a "menu language" and "compiler" to provide mouse
support for applications that do not directly support a mouse.  They provide
sample drivers for many standard business packages.  I use their mouse with
Word 4.0  (using their Microsoft Mouse driver), and have had absolutely
zero problems.  When I buy a mouse for my home computer, I am 99.44% sure
that it will be an MSC optical mouse.


I have no relationship with MSC except as a (very) satisfied customer.


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