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- From: jeffs@soul.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Smith)
- Subject: Re: Mechanical vs Optical mice (was Re: mouse cleaning)
- Message-ID: <v7ml2bo@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <35174@adm.brl.mil> <1993Jan22.185156.1609@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1jq6l6INN3jt@larry.cs.ubc.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 07:07:47 GMT
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- In <1jq6l6INN3jt@larry.cs.ubc.ca> samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel) writes:
-
- >A better question: Is there someplace that sells third-party optical
- >mice for the various models of SGI? I would LOVE to put optical mice on
- >our newer machines (actually, we've got a couple of IBMs that I'd love
- >to put optical mice on as well).
-
- Mouse Systems sells an optical mouse that works with SGI machines, which
- is gold sealed by SGI, which I believe means you can buy it from SGI
- directly.
-
- Mouse Systems also sells a similar 3-button optical mouse that will work
- with the RS/6000, but unfortunately it is sorta brain dead and the
- middle mouse button will *not* work (the IBM PS/2 mouse protocol only
- defines 2 buttons, but most mice do 3 buttons the same way including
- Logitech (makes the RS/6000 mouse) and even newer Mouse Systems mice).
-
- jeffs@sgi.com
-