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From: kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: aerodynamic mice
Message-ID: <8080@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 2 May 89 08:36:44 GMT
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Reply-To: kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <8905012334.aa04101@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET writes:
>APPLE HAS KILLED THE MOUSE!
>
>I just got 5 IIGS computers, and 1 ugh..SE.  All of them had this piece of
>lightweight plastic with a black ball inside of them that seemed to be created
>from a new and improved hollow, black, lightweight, indestructable, chemical
>derivative, of the old mouse ball.  The things that were
>masquerading as mice.seem to be a new idea in how to control the mouse.

Ummm...your post was about how light the mice are--my point is how
USELESS these mice become:  The ball inside of the mouse is so light,
that often, the ball won't spin!  Not everyone has the space for mouse
pads, so this is definitely a problem for me.  It is really annoying to
slide the mouse half-way across my desk, and yet have the cursor move
only a few pixels.  The SE's now seem to have the same 'sleek' mouse,
but with a bigger, heavier ball in them...is this what they are still
making (or do they all have this light-weight mouse)?

			Kent Dickey
kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.Edu
kadickey@PUCC