romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) (04/05/89)
I use Microsoft's mouse at work as well as the new ergonomic Logitech mouse. I still prefer the Atari mouse. I have long fingers and the Atari mouse allows me to drape my hand over the buttons. With the two mice on DOS machines, both are so low that I end up crimping my fingers on the buttons. I do wish that the Atari mouse had a smoother button click, though. The bouncy feel to the click is sometimes annoying. Pavneet Arora ...!utgpu!rom!pavneet Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 (416) 586-5626
"Martin_Cooper.osbunorth"@XEROX.COM (04/10/89)
> I use Microsoft's mouse at work as well as the new ergonomic > Logitech mouse. I still prefer the Atari mouse. I have long Wow! I've never used a PC mouse, and now I don't think I ever want to. I have used a lot of other mice, on workstations of various sorts, and for me the Atari mouse is the *worst* I have ever used. The *best* I've used was on an obscure workstation made by Whitechapel in the UK. It's shaped almost like half a tennis ball, with three "buttons" just exactly where your fingertips fall. It's extremely comfortable to use for long periods of time, and the click gives just the right amount of feedback without requiring a strong finger. Next best is the Xerox optical mouse. The shape isn't so good, but it's very light, moves very easily, and has really excellent click characteristics - lighweight microswitches. And because it's optical, there's no ball to get all gummed up. But optical isn't always good. The Sun mouse is optical, but it's awful - it's "directional" in the sense that you have to have the pad the right way up and the mouse parallel to the sides of it for it to work at all. Weird. It's just a pity that, with so many mice around, so few of them are interchangeable. Then I'd be able to use the same kind of mouse on all the machines I use. Sigh. One day, maybe... Martin. -------------------------------+-------------------------------------- -- Martin Cooper | These opinions are all mine. They -- -- Xerox Corporation | might be yours too, but they sure -- -------------------------------| aren't those of my company. They -- -- Cooper.osbuNorth@Xerox.com +----------------+ might not know I -- -- {hplabs,lll-winken}!arisia!cooper.osbunorth | have opinions. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
c60c-3ds@web-1b.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami) (04/11/89)
In article <890410-165233-5678@Xerox> Cooper.osbuNorth@Xerox.com.osbunorth writes: > >> I use Microsoft's mouse at work as well as the new ergonomic >> Logitech mouse. I still prefer the Atari mouse. I have long > >Wow! I've never used a PC mouse, and now I don't think I ever want to. I >have used a lot of other mice, on workstations of various sorts, and for me >the Atari mouse is the *worst* I have ever used. Don't worry, I prefer those PC mice. The buttons are nice, and they are much lighter and quiter than the Atari. The MS one is a bit small though, about the size of the Atari minus 1/4 inch on each side. [stuff deleted] [stuff praising Xerox optical mouse] >But optical isn't always good. The Sun mouse is optical, but it's awful - >it's "directional" in the sense that you have to have the pad the right way >up and the mouse parallel to the sides of it for it to work at all. Weird. That's funny. The Sun mice used here are by MSC, and they do not require the mouse sides to be parallel to the pad. In fact, the mouse can be oriented over 45 degrees off, and it will track properly. The pad has no "right way up" but must be oriented at the proper relative angle. Maybe sun changed mice, or rewrote some software (I doubt the latter, as the mouse tracking seems good by design). > >-- Martin Cooper | These opinions are all mine. They -- >-- Xerox Corporation | might be yours too, but they sure -- >-------------------------------| aren't those of my company. They -- >-- Cooper.osbuNorth@Xerox.com +----------------+ might not know I -- >-- {hplabs,lll-winken}!arisia!cooper.osbunorth | have opinions. -- ( ( John Kawakami ) ) ) ) c60c-3ds@web.berkeley.edu ( (