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From: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
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Date: 9 May 89 14:44:53 GMT
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In article <2600@nmtsun.nmt.edu> weevil@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Jeff Eliasen) writes:
>When is Apple going to ship the Macintosh standard with optical mice? I
>figure maybe an increase in price of $50, which is small enough that it
>could probably be ignored...

I have played with optical mice.  We have optical mice on our Suns.
Optical mice are not Mac mice.

The optical mice I have played with have a number of problems (partial
list follows):
1) They need that stupid grid pad.
2) They need to be oriented properly with the grids on the pad
   (ie. moving the mouse along the mouse's x axis will only move
    the cursor horizontally if the mouse is properly oriented 
    with the grid.  Try turning the mouse 90 degrees with respect
    to the normal orientation and see what happens)
3) (could be a hardware oversight but) On Suns, the faster you
   move the mouse the slower the cursor goes!  Those of you who
   pay attention to your Macs should have noticed the cool mouse
   velocity sensitive mouse scaling.


Conclusions:  I am going to keep my mouse (early ADB) when I sell
my Mac.  (That is if I sell it to upgrade to another Mac. Who knows
what the future will bring.)



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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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