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Article #42880Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
From: gillies
Date: Sat, 20 May 1989 15:42
Date: Sat, 20 May 1989 15:42
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?! Message-ID: <126900014@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 May 89 15:42:00 GMT References: <7891@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu:7891:p.cs.uiuc.edu:126900014:000:483 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies May 20 10:42:00 1989