Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.misc > #17911

Re: 20 years of the optical mouse

From Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: 20 years of the optical mouse
Date 2019-05-01 21:05 +0000
Organization Some absurd concept
Message-ID <eli$1905011705@qaz.wtf> (permalink)
References <73akpf-mo9.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> <qac2o4$14ke$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk>

Show all headers | View raw


In comp.misc, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Optical mice have been available for over 35 years.

Yeah. s/the optical/a particular style of optical/

I recall using Sun systems with optical mice more than twenty years ago.
They required special printed mouse pads, which the Microsoft version did
away with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Systems

Elijah
------
nearly used "MS" for Microsoft, but realized possible Mouse Systems confusion

Back to comp.misc | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

20 years of the optical mouse RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-29 18:23 -0400
  Re: 20 years of the optical mouse not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-30 23:08 +0000
    Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-05-01 03:15 -0300
      Re: 20 years of the optical mouse RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-02 01:22 +0000
        Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-02 15:53 +0000
  Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-05-01 07:25 +0000
    Re: 20 years of the optical mouse RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-02 01:26 +0000
  Re: 20 years of the optical mouse richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2019-05-01 12:17 +0000
    Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-05-01 21:05 +0000
      Re: 20 years of the optical mouse Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-01 21:17 +0000

csiph-web