Re: [9fans] 3-button mouse

["Lawrence E. Bakst" <ml@iridescent.org>]

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.

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."

2. The Logitech Model M-CAA43 P/N 811439-0000 was a great basic 3 button mouse, with 3 real buttons. It was PS/2 however. You can find them used if you look.
http://white-cube.blogzine.jp/nap/images/p2020068a.jpg

leb


At 8:18 PM -0700 5/4/10, Russ Cox wrote:
>A correspondent recently sent me email to ask
>about where to find a good 3-button mouse for
>use with plan9port, but the question might equally
>apply to Plan 9 proper.  I was disappointed to find
>that apparently IBM/Lenovo no longer sells the mouse
>that Andrey first alerted us to, with the big blue
>scroll knob.
>
>Other mice I know of:
>
>  * the Evoluent VerticalMouse
>  * on OS X with appropriate hacking (as in plan9port),
>    the Magic Mouse
>
>Are there others?  For the purposes of this thread, let's say
>that mice where you have to click the scroll wheel itself as
>the middle button do not count.  They're a dime a dozen.
>I'm interested in mice with an actual middle button.
>
>Thanks.
>Russ


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