Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!d88-jwa
From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
Summary: Mouse pads worse than cleaning
Keywords: mechanical, mouse, optical, pad
Message-ID: <1007@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 11 May 89 14:46:33 GMT
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Lines: 34


I couldn't keep out any longer.

People say that the mechanical mouse gets dirty and doesn't always
have friction, so they prefer optical mouses, who use pads. But if
you use a pad with the mechanical mouse, it doesn't get dirty, it
doesn't skid and you still can use it WITHOUT the pad TOO. So, in
my opinion, the mechanical mouse is more flexible, it can have all
of the advantages of an optical mouse, if you limit them as much
as optical mouses are limited, and you still have the choice to
throw the pad away, roll the mouse on the floor (or on top of my
SE, something I did once, playing as a DJ and having all my records
with titles and BPM numbers in a Hypercard stack... quite convenient,
No more "Dunno, but it sounds familiar" when people ask about some
records I usually don't play.)

Oh, and about the jeans, I myself prefer Levi 501, but that may be
up to personal taste (as well as optical/machanical mouse decisions) :-)
Hopefully the mouses travel as smoothly on Levi jeans as on any other
canvas trousers, I wouldn't make any commercial statement.

Since the ADB mouse is nice-looking, easy to handle, has a solid feel
and coordinates better with my post-brutal furniture than my IBM AT
clone's mouse, I feel that Apple can continue with the ADB mouse with
confidence.

By the way: when do we se an INERTIAL mouse? No grids, no pads, no
moving parts, you don't even have to have a table :-) And the '#' is
called SAWMILL on my maps, maybe it isn't outside Sweden?

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