REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (03/20/84)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC> When I made the first-use-of-mouse critique of the Dandilion a couple days ago I forgot to qualify my remarks that we're a beta test site for Dandilions and accompanying software that is not yet released as a commercial product. Surely by the time it's released the problems I mentionned should be fixed. Thus my message should be read as a warning that mice can be bad, and that it's hard to get them to work (or the problem would have been fixed during alpha-test instead of left unfixed until beta-test) not that any product from Xerox would be bad when delivered to real customers. My apology for any embarassment to Xerox. Just for curiosity, does anybody with real commercially-released mice (from any company, not necessarily Xerox) have problems like I had with the mouse sliding instead of rolling, or dragging the whole pad with it? I'm addressing my question mostly to first-time users. Apparently with very careful coordination it's possible for the user to compensate for mouse deficiencies.