Salutations,
Yup, there were optical mice before MS introduced theirs a few years ago.
That's why I wrote 'mouse MS introduced'. :)
Actually what I meant was the camera optics the mouse uses is from HP.
What is funny is that the older optical mice, like Sun, needed a special
mouse pad with a grid printed on it. What is _really_ funny is that the you
could turn the mouse pad sideways and the mouse would track sideways. Push
the mouse up and the cursor would go to the right. Always annoying for a
cheap laugh.
Of course that isn't nearly as funny as taking a screenshot of a users
desktop, setting the picture as the background, hiding the taskbar and the
moving icons off the screen. Good for at least 5 minutes of hysterics.
Cheers,
David
on 7/11/02 2:30 AM, Jon Glass at jonglass_at_mac.com wrote:
>
> on 7/11/02 3:27 AM, SlashDevNull at slashdevnull_at_mac.com wrote:
>
>> The optical mouse MS introduced came from HP.
>
> ?? I used an optical mouse ages ago, on a Xerox dedicated Desktop publishing
> machine. It was pretty cool. You had a desktop with a printer and a
> trashcan. When you wanted to print, you had to close the file, and drag it
> to the printer icon. It printed to a laser printer that did double-duty as a
> photocopier. It predated the Mac by at least a couple of years. I'm guessing
> it was the fruit of Xerox's famed PARC lab?? I don't recall if it had
> overlapping windows. At the time, I never considered that it was a
> "computer" of any sort, just a different way of doing text layout, and more
> visual and simpler than the line-based system I had used before.
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