Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!hydra!kreeta!viljanen From: viljanen@kreeta.cs.Helsinki.FI (Lea Viljanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ALTERNATIVE MICE Message-ID: <870@hydra.cs.Helsinki.FI> Date: 23 Mar 89 20:48:43 GMT References: <890316.08534234.014695@SFA.CP6> Sender: news@cs.Helsinki.FI Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland Lines: 19 In article <890316.08534234.014695@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes: > > Radio Shack has a serial mouse for $49.00 that has a great feel to >it. It fits the hand much better than the ST mouse and the buttons aren't >as stiff. However, I think before I change from the Atari mouse that I'd >like to get an optical one but admit not knowing if it would work or not. It will work. I've briefly seen an optical mouse connected to the ST. The glimpse was very short and I can't remember what optical mouse was it, but as far as I could see, the wiring was very simple. If there is sufficient interest, I could find out more about it. >Larry Rymal """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen ____ University of Helsinki, Finland viljanen@finuha.bitnet \ / . ' Dept. of Computer Science viljanen@cs.helsinki.fi \/ |_ 'Small is beautiful'