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From: greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari ST mouse: is there an alternative?
Message-ID: <547@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 12 Feb 89 23:58:59 GMT
References: <733@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: greg@sce.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <733@bnlux0.bnl.gov> litt@bnl-max (Laurence Littenberg) writes:
>Our group has a number of Atari ST1040s, used mainly as graphics
>terminals.  We have been having a certain problem, apparently well
>known, with the mice.  After a while they stop being able to drag the cursor
>properly.  Sometimes they can still drag it in one direction but not
>in the opposite direction.  Sometimes they can move it, but very very
>slowly.  The cursor also sometimes drifts up to the top of the screen, or
>over to one side.  It's been possible to get them fixed or replaced, of
>course, but it is a pain in the neck.  I'd like to know if there is
>any more reliable alternative mouse (or other device which could serve 
>the function) that could be adapted to the ST.


My Atari 1040STf's original mouse bit the dust in the manner you
described.  I had it fixed once.  It broke down again a few months
later.  So I tossed that mouse and got a replacement.  The original
mouse was made in Taiwan, the new one, Japan.  The guy at the shop
said that the Japanese mice (!) were much more reliable.  I have long
since forgotten why.

Good luck!


-- 
Greg Franks                  Systems and Computer Engineering, 
utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!greg  Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
       uunet!mitel!sce!greg          greg@sce.carleton.ca
from Ottawa Ont, where life in the fast lane is skating two inners!