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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
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Date: 20 May 89 15:42:00 GMT
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> I for one would not want an optical mouse. They require those
> reflective pads. If you mouse at angles to the x/y pattern on the pad,
> the mouse movement is strange.

You haven't used the a good optical mouse.  The Xerox optical mouse
uses a grey sheet of paper (use copier to make more), works at ANY
ANGLE, and costs about $5 to manufacture.

The only disadvantage of that mouse is it's hard to get 1 pixel
increments, because the high friction makes the first move a big one.