I have one of those pads, from SUN, sitting on a shelf (if anyone
wants it, make me a plausible offer) - you will see that the horiz and
vert lines are different - you could have fun by rotating someon's pad
by 90 deg

Oh, and the original post - that was a joke from IBM - I first saw it
when an IBM employee handed it to me about 1986 or 7


bill
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:08:56 -0800, dan wrote:

Devonshire wrote:
On the day of Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:25:11 -0600...
Matt Helm
typed these letters:


The mouse I'm refering to was
indeed optical. No ball. But it required a special gridded mouse
pad that had to be oriented in a certain way in order for it to work
correctly. If this is the mouse in question it doesn't work the same
as the modern optical mice. The modern ones take pictures of the
surface to track movement.

Not quite correct. The resolution and size of the picture as changed.


Matt


So this special gridded mouse pad wasn't wired to the mouse?
From the way the info I found on it read. I assumed it worked
like a digitizer pad where the mouse or pointing device and the pad
were wired and worked together. So this old optical mouse even
though it required a special pad, the pad served no other purpose
than for the mouse to see.

Devonshire

Si! Truly optical, passive pad.

Fun recalling old history (as opposed to new history).

Dan
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