Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:29:29 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI Message-ID: <37A9C9F9.FE5F7CDC@airnet.net> References: <199908021642.JAA23730@nothing.nas.nasa.gov> <199908022257.PAA12288@usr08.primenet.com> <19990803094810.A267@marder-1> <19990803122316.07266@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990804170107.C5793@stumpy.dannyland.org>
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dannyman wrote: > > > Why specifically Sun? > > > > Because Sun shipped optical mice with their workstations very early > > on, way before the others did ? > > and those optical mice sucked really bad. you had to move them the right way > on the little silver grid, and in the sticky lab environment i used them at, > this meant pretty much holding the mouse from above and guiding it along on > each edge with my fingers, carefully clicking where needed ... AUGH! > > thanks for bringing back some nasty memories! :p Until recently a local university still had some old Sun equipment with the aforementioned optical mice. Took me a while to realise that the mouse cared which way it was facing. And some of those pads were missing lines in them. I think the favorite trick was to turn the pad 90 degrees. Next person through assumed it had problems and left it alone.... -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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