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From: vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
Keywords: mouse keyboards
Message-ID: <2636@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 14 May 89 16:10:20 GMT
References: <736@arisia.Xerox.COM> <13429@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <30434@apple.Apple.COM> <1793@husc6.harvard.edu> <25034@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <25034@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV| tal@lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Thomas A Longstaff) writes:
|
|O.K., now that the optical vs. mechanical debate has raged again,
|perhaps it's time for a new solution.  What if Apple made you buy the
|mouse separately?  Remember the time when the keyboard was part of the
|mac you bought?  
|...Apple only offers one
|mouse/machine configuration so they should include it.  Wouldn't want
|you to go out any buy that nasty 3-party stuff, would we?  Like
|3rd-party keyboards?
|
|Maybe if Apple came out with an optical mouse and offered it as an
|option, everyone would be happy (for a couple of nanoseconds anyway). 

I wouldn't be happy at all, I *HATE* mice! They take up all that desk space.
Make me knock over my coffee and push my papers on the floor.....
I *LIKE* trackballs (i use the kensington turbo mouse and THIS device gives
me more control and speed than any Soapbar-sliding-on-the-table-mouse, optical
or otherwise ever gave me.  I hate to even call it a mouse.  I call it a 
turtle ('cause the ball seems sort of like a turtle shell).  I say
"DEATH TO MICE, LONG LIVE THE TURTLE")  

|Tom Longstaff				Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
|415-423-4416		 		L-542, Box 808
|longstaf@frostedflakes.llnl.gov		Livermore, CA 94550
|{lll-crg,harvard,sun,dual,rutgers,seismo,ihnp4}!lll-lcc!longstaf

Todd
vogelei@nmtsun