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From: c60c-3ds@web-1b.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari's mouse.  Still best for my hand.
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Date: 11 Apr 89 09:33:26 GMT
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In article <890410-165233-5678@Xerox> Cooper.osbuNorth@Xerox.com.osbunorth writes:
>
>> I use Microsoft's mouse at work as well as the new ergonomic
>> Logitech mouse.  I still prefer the Atari mouse.  I have long
>
>Wow! I've never used a PC mouse, and now I don't think I ever want to. I
>have used a lot of other mice, on workstations of various sorts, and for me
>the Atari mouse is the *worst* I have ever used.

Don't worry, I prefer those PC mice.  The buttons are nice, and they are much
lighter and quiter than the Atari.  The MS one is a bit small though, about
the size of the Atari minus 1/4 inch on each side.
[stuff deleted]
[stuff praising Xerox optical mouse]

>But optical isn't always good. The Sun mouse is optical, but it's awful -
>it's "directional" in the sense that you have to have the pad the right way
>up and the mouse parallel to the sides of it for it to work at all. Weird.

That's funny.  The Sun mice used here are by MSC, and they do not require the
mouse sides to be parallel to the pad.  In fact, the mouse can be oriented
over 45 degrees off, and it will track properly.  The pad has no "right
way up" but must be oriented at the proper relative angle.

Maybe sun changed mice, or rewrote some software (I doubt the latter, as the
mouse tracking seems good by design).
>
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