Re: 20 years of the optical mouse

From	Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: 20 years of the optical mouse
Date	2019-05-01 21:17 +0000
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> 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

I also used these on Sun systems (going on nearly 30 years ago now for 
me).

They were very finiky and not always report mouse movement, even with 
their special pad (at least as compared to what is now considered an 
"optical mouse" which almost always works on nearly any surface).

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  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

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