From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 5 10:31:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2269615500 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-248.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.248]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA29399; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:29:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37A9C9F9.FE5F7CDC@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:29:29 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dannyman Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI References: <199908021642.JAA23730@nothing.nas.nasa.gov> <199908022257.PAA12288@usr08.primenet.com> <19990803094810.A267@marder-1> <19990803122316.07266@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990804170107.C5793@stumpy.dannyland.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.... -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message