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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 3-button mouse
Date: Fri,  7 May 2010 23:57:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ace8ef49acdd1465b62218924b2fb10@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p06240806c80a6abe9fe6@[192.168.0.7]>

On Fri May  7 21:41:59 EDT 2010, ml@iridescent.org wrote:
> 1. FWIW I think the IBM/Lenovo mouse is still available. Type 31P7405 into Google Search and you get lots of options.
>
> Is this really a 3 button mouse or is the scrollpoint the middle button? It really looks like a 2 button mouse from the picture.

yes.  it has a regular button in front of the blue thing.  the blue
thing is a scrolly thing.  i've learned to avoid it.

>
> NB I saw this in a review at the Lenovo web site:
>
> "The basic flaw is the design or should I say quality control is very poor. Among two of the six I got, the base is not flat. They wiggle diagonally when you put it on a flat table, which is kinda very annoying making noise whenever you click."

there have been no complaints among the 13 in use at coraid.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  3:18 Russ Cox
2010-05-05  3:24 ` [9fans] " Joseph Xu
2010-05-06 16:24   ` ron minnich
2010-05-07 16:03     ` Russ Cox
2010-05-12 21:00       ` ron minnich
2010-05-05  3:50 ` Bell Labs Plan 9
2010-05-05  3:52 ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-05  4:41   ` Don Bailey
2010-05-05  4:57     ` David Leimbach
2010-05-05  5:53   ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-05-05  4:57 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-05-05  7:56 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2010-05-05  8:01   ` EBo
2010-05-05 10:12 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-05-05 18:21   ` Jonas Amoson
2010-05-06 11:28     ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2010-05-12 21:15       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-05-05 11:08 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-05-05 16:08 ` Stan Barr
2010-05-08  1:39 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2010-05-08  3:57   ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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