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From: perley@trub.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley)
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Subject: Re: Optical Mouse Question
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Date: 23 Feb 90 21:33:53 GMT
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In article <2201@ultb.isc.rit.edu> dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson ) writes:
>On the topic of Mice:
>
>I have the Boing Optical mouse, and it hasn't worked since I got it (It
>works fine vertically, but is sluggish or jitters Horizontally)  


It sounds like your pad is sideways.  On my sun mouse (also msc) the
pointer will move horizontally but not vertically if the pad is
sideways (taller than it is wide).  I know there are a couple of
revisions of the mouse/pad out, so yours might have reversed
symptoms from mine. 

-don perley
perley@trub.crd.ge.com