Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse
Message-ID: <12586@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 14 Nov 88 15:25:32 GMT
References: <1416@ge-dab.GE.COM> <1678@csun.edu> <183@ultb.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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The optical vs. mechanical mouse question is interesting. The users of
optical mice say that mechanical mice tend to need cleaning a lot (all
of the ones on our Macs seem to). The mechanical people say that they
don't want to have to use the optical pad.

Recantly the mechanical people have started using mouse pads. Now they
claim that there is no problem with cleaning needed. Not one of them
complains that they have to run on a pad.

My personal opinion is that any device with moving parts will have a
higher failure rate than a device of the same complexity with no moving
parts. I use both types of mouse and don't like mice in general.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me