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- From: senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Subject: Re: mouse cleaning
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.043748.18802@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:37:48 GMT
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- In article <35173@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
- >
- > You're being sarcastic, right?!
- > I want my optical mouse back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- > Actually, our three older systems still have the superior optical mice,
- >so I'm only annoyed when I have to use our new Indigo that has the crummy
- >machanical mouse. I have yet to hear any one give me an inteligent reason
- >why they prefer machanical mice. You still need a pad for them. The balls
- >tend to `jam' and jurk. They are heavy. And most of all they are machanical,
- >so they have parts that easily ware out, get dirty, etc..
- > SGI read my electrons! Give us back our optical mice!
- >
-
- You're nuts! A _good_ mechanical mouse is much better than an optical
- mouse IMHO. Of course the operant word is _good_ since I'm not very happy
- with the low quality of SGI's current litter -- they keep dying on us
- with frightening regularity (the mice fail to move the cursor in one
- or both directions). This isn't a cleaning problem either since we
- know how to clean the little critters and it doesn't fix the problem.
-
- If you want to look a GOOD mechanical mouse, look at MicroSoft's --
- now that's a MOUSE!
-
-
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- David M. Senseman, Ph.D. | Imagine the Creator as a low
- (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | comedian, and at once the world
- Center for Information Visualization | becomes explicable.
- University of Texas at San Antonio | H.L. Mencken
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