bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) (02/23/86)
> In article <389@utastro.UUCP>, fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray) writes: > > > A friend of mine has an optical mouse running on his > > Mac. It has no (0) moving parts, and is an exact replacement. > > I'm in the process of finding out where he got it. > > We have some Xerox lisp machines here, and they have optical mice. They > are pretty nice mice, but the problem is that they have to sit on a special > (in this case 8 1/2 x 11) mousepad, or they don't work. I assume the > optical mice for the Mac operate the same way. I've used an optical mouse which worked fine on an apparently featureless desktop, although a pad was supplied with it... Lord knows how the thing worked -- I sure never figured it out... -- Bart Massey ..tektronix!reed!bart
mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) (02/26/86)
In article <2587@reed.UUCP> bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) writes: > >I've used an optical mouse which worked fine on an apparently featureless >desktop, although a pad was supplied with it... Lord knows how the thing >worked -- I sure never figured it out... >-- > Bart Massey > ..tektronix!reed!bart Somehow I doubt that it was a "featureless" desktop. Was it wood- grained? I've seen optical mice work on blue-jeans. (I wonder if cords would work better?) -- --MKR There is none so blind as he who cannot see.