Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:11:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: kris@airnet.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI Message-ID: <199908051811.NAA15907@free.pcs> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/37A9C9F9.FE5F7CDC@airnet.net> References: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/199908021642.JAA23730@nothing.nas.nasa.gov> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/199908022257.PAA12288@usr08.primenet.com> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990803094810.A267@marder-1> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990803122316.07266@ns.int.ftf.net> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990804170107.C5793@stumpy.dannyland.org>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-chat/37A9C9F9.FE5F7CDC@airnet.net> you write: >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.... At an old univ lab, some students got the semi-bright idea of trying to reserve a sun during exam time by swiping the optical mousepad, effectively rendering the mouse unuseable. However, we discovered that the cotton weave lines on typical jeans performed fairly nicely as a substitute. :-) -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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