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From: pad3563@ultb.UUCP (P.A. Deupree )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse
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Date: 10 Nov 88 13:31:02 GMT
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In article <1678@csun.edu> cacsc222@mx.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) writes:
>In article <1416@ge-dab.GE.COM> suppe@ge-dab.GE.COM (Dennis Suppe) writes:
>| 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.
>
Hmm.  I guess I just started off on the wrong foot with optical mice.  I worked
at a computer store 6 years ago (we're talking back in the days when the IBM PC
had first come out) and I worked with the first mouse for the PC.  It was an 
optical mouse (though I forget the company) that had a few problems.  I didn't
like it for quite a few reasons.  It was a pain in the butt to have to keep it
on the stupid mirror pad.  It's movement was often choppy (as will happen with
optical mice at times).  And it didn't always work (this has probably been
solved in the Microsoft mouse.

Since then I've worked with the Sun 3 workstations (that have optical mice)
and found basically the same problems.  I didn't like them either and have been
totally disenchanted with optical mice.  So I bought a logitech bus mouse off a
guy here and have had no problems.  I like it because it moves smoothly, I don't
need that dumb optical pad, and it's worked with everything I have so far.  Now
I just have to figure out how to field an interrupt from the dumb thing.
>
>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 think that most mice do have this kind of thing.  My Logitech came with a 
program to create your own menues for various software.  It came with sample
menu programs (although I have to adjust things because the mouse moves way
too fast in them) and it even came with a Logitech paint program (that isn't
that good, but heck, it came with the thing).  Gee, maybe I'll interface it
with the Wordperfect 5.0 I'm using and have something fairly neat.  @:)

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