Optical Mouse Pad

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Mon Apr 10 22:56:47 2000

Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 Bill Pechter wrote:
> > > Uh, Duh. Ok, I wondered if it was an IR led but now I know it is and that
> > > it is working because I can get the mouse to move a teeny bit by running
> > > it over dense text.
> > >
> > > I think I have to make a mousepad. Any ideas on the distance between
> > > lines etc? --
> >
> > Is this a Sun4 mouse or Sun3.
>
> I recently bought three padless type 4 Sun mice, with the aim of hacking one
> to work on my Amiga, and also as a PC bus mouse.
>
> Does type 4 mean the type that came with Sun4 workstations? How do Sun3 and
> Sun4 mouse pads differ? Are replacements still available? Are Mouse Systems
> still alive?
>
>
> -- Mark

Hi
 There were two types of mouse pad on the sun's we had here.
I'm not sure what the difference was but I know that
one type would not work on the other. One type was with
a IPC. I'm not sure what the other came from.
I'm currently using a Fujitsu labled roller ball mouse.
I like these better than having to have the optical pad.
The particular mouse I have had some design problems but
I fixed mine and it has no problems now except the normal
dirty ball problem.
Dwight
Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 22:56:47 BST