wross@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (William Ross) (11/02/90)
I need to put a track-ball in place of the mouse on my Sun Sparcstation
1+. ANY help would be very appreciated. Who sells these? Who Might sell
them? What is the sun mouse compatible with? Can I make some other
trackball work?
Thanks!
Bill Ross wross@cs.cmu.edudahl@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Dahl) (11/19/90)
> I need to put a track-ball in place of the mouse on my Sun > Sparcstation 1+. ANY help would be very appreciated. Who sells > these? Who Might sell them? What is the sun mouse compatible > with? Can I make some other trackball work? We got a trackball for our Sun from Logitech but found it was very touchy to use. It was difficult to hit one of the buttons without also moving the cursor and taking you hand off the ball also caused the cursor to move. We gave up after a few days of frustration. Logitech can be reached at: 800-231-7717 Outside CA 800-525-8885 Inside CA 800-283-7717 from Canada Michael Dahl, Cimplex Corporation Voice: (408) 879-2800 Fax: (408) 879-9605 1500 E. Hamilton Ave. Suite 100, Campbell Ca. 95008 dahl@netcom.uucp - or - {apple,claris}!netcom!dahl
dmp@epg.harris.com (Donald Patterson) (11/19/90)
In article <1990Nov2.002558.10779@rice.edu>, wross@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (William Ross) writes: |> I need to put a track-ball in place of the mouse on my Sun Sparcstation |> 1+. ANY help would be very appreciated. Who sells these? Who Might sell |> them? What is the sun mouse compatible with? Can I make some other |> trackball work? |> |> Thanks! |> Bill Ross wross@cs.cmu.edu ITAC Systems, Inc., sells a product called "Mouse-track" (a roller ball input device). ITAC is in Garland, texas (214-494-3073). Though we have Mouse-track's only on PCs here, ITAC says that most of there business is on suns. The model you are after is M5-SUN-MD (for mini-DIN) list price is $199. Don Patterson \\\ INTERNET : dmp@epg.harris.com Harris Corporation \\\ UUCP : ...!uunet!x102a!dpatterson Engineering Productivity Group \\\ CCMAIL : dpatters 1025 W. Nasa Blvd., MS 3A/epg \\\ VOICE : (407) 727-6058 Melbourne, FL 32919 \\\ FAX : (407) 727-5510
Mark_Weiser.PARC@xerox.com (11/19/90)
I have used a track ball called SunTrac, from a company called MicroSpeed. I don't have any other info (that is all that it printed on the case, which I have in front of me). It plugs into the mouse socket in the Sun keyboard, and has three buttons, and works just fine. I used it for about a month, but then switched back, basically prefering mice I guess. But since I used it for a month you can tell it was not awful. (BTW, we don't use the Sun mice here, but instead opto-mechanical Sun-compatible mice from Logitech, model M-CD9-SUN-8MD. They are great.) -mark