From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:39:50 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> From: "Lawrence E. Bakst" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [9fans] 3-button mouse Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1e21420e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 -- leb@iridescent.org