Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice

Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice

[Sape Mullender]

We built a USB interface into a dozen or so Depraz mice.  Works like a charm.
Must say, though, that the buttons are a lot stiffer than I remembered them.

	Sape

Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice

[Boyd Roberts]

From: Tom Duff <td@pixar.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice


> ... a half dozen of the hemispherical
> red Depraz mice used on Jerqs from the trash at
> Bell Labs.

now _that_ was a mouse.

Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice

[Tom Duff]

> There is a *lot* of old computer gear I wish
> I'd held onto so I could use it now instead of
> the cruft that has replaced it.
Yes -- I slavaged a half dozen of the hemispherical
red Depraz mice used on Jerqs from the trash at
Bell Labs.  They're the most pleasant mice ever made,
but are obsolete because they were made before the
advent of serial mouse interfaces.  A simple PIC
project ought to bring them back to life...

Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice

[Christopher Nielsen]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:

> There is a *lot* of old computer gear I wish
> I'd held onto so I could use it now instead of
> the cruft that has replaced it.

Oddly, I've noticed the same about good reference books and
textbooks. Publishing companies and hardware companies seem
to be taking the same tack: both obsoleting good and useful
products in favor of the latest and greatest.

-- 
Christopher Nielsen
cnielsen@pobox.com

[9fans] not just 3-button mice

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Have you tried to buy a keyboard recently?
Current models all have "Web function" keys
that seem to require loading a special driver
(hook?) into Windows to support them..

There is a *lot* of old computer gear I wish
I'd held onto so I could use it now instead of
the cruft that has replaced it.