thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) (01/16/90)
I am considering purchasing a new ADB mouse for my Mac. Does anyone out there have any opinions of those currently available. I have heard a few good things about the A+ mouse which is optical and has a lifetime warrantee. This sounds like a good one, but how does it compare with the Apple mouse in terms of feel. Has anyone had problems using one? I also saw an ad for a cordless mouse. I'm not sure what company produces it. Anyways, does anyone know much about this one? I suppose it uses infrared to transmit to the port; is that a correct assumption? IF so, house does the signal transmit. I remember my friend who had the PCjr (ages ago) with the cordless keyboard. The signal transmission for that thing was very unimpress- ive. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Derek Fong fong@cive.stanford.edu thewho@portia.stanford.edu
Jerry.Andrews@f426.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jerry Andrews) (01/17/90)
DF> I am considering purchasing a new ADB mouse for my Mac. Does anyone I have a trackball. Took me about 2 weeks to get used to it; now I'd not have anything else. It moves around faster (or as slow as) a mouse; I can click the button without touching the ball if I want to do a selection without moving an object; I can coast across a 2-page display with 1 flick of the finger, and I don't need a clean place on my desk to use it. It DID, however, take awhile to get used to. -- Jerry Andrews at The Black Cat's Shack (Fidonet 1:109/401) Internet: Jerry.Andrews@f426.n109.z1.fidonet.org UUCP: ...!uunet!blkcat!426!Jerry.Andrews
ric@netcom.UUCP (Richard Bretscheider) (01/20/90)
> DF> I am considering purchasing a new ADB mouse for my Mac. Does anyone
I just got the Moebius Cordless Mouse. Uses IR sending to a unit that a
attaches to your Mac (same unit works with either ADB or Old mouse ports!)
I like it, I still have a corded mouse at work and have noticed that I
spend too much time arranging the cord to make the mouse work. Cost was
less than an Apple replacement mouse, and less than most trackballs. Only
downside seems to be that it is not reactive to "agressive" movement in
games such as Shufflepuck. The benefit makes up for that.
--
Richard A. Bretschneider These are my words. My employer's
Ric Bret words are often spoken in haste, and
RAB rarely resemble my compassionate prose.khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) (01/23/90)
thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes: >I also saw an ad for a cordless mouse. I'm not sure what company produces it. >Anyways, does anyone know much about this one? I suppose it uses infrared >to transmit to the port; is that a correct assumption? IF so, house does I tried it out at ComputerWare in Sunnyvale last weekend. It has 2 buttons on top, both serving as "the" mouse key, and a "thumb" button on the side for right handed users that didn't seem to do anything when I clicked it, but I later read on a box that it's a mouse motion accelerator. In terms of feel, it's pretty close to the regular ADB mouse (it has a rubber coated ball near the palm end). In terms of sensitivity, as long as you don't go far outside the horizontal plane of the detector module, you can pretty much point the mouse in any direction within a 180 degree range (and maybe even away from the detector if there are surfaces that will reflect the IR beam, though I'm not sure why you'd want to point the mouse away from the Mac -- but there's no accounting for taste). The detector is a little box (whose shape and color matches the mouse, naturally) with a long cord ending in a 9-pin D connector, which was connected to the ADB port on a DataDesk keyboard via an adapter cable. -- Mike Khaw ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043 Domain=khaw@parcplace.com, UUCP=...!{uunet,sun,decwrl}!parcplace!khaw