Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:25:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dwalton@psiint.com (Dave Walton) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Honeywell 3 button mouse Message-ID: <199602271825.LAA05195@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960227075336.24930A-100000@vv.psiint.com> from "Dave Walton" at Feb 27, 96 08:19:12 am
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> > Everything you never wanted to know about DEC mice: > [plus even more from Mike Smith] > > It seems like DEC and Honeywell used similar ideas in their mice. > However, there is one little detail I couldn't figure out from your > descriptions. In a Decstation mouse, which part actually passes through > the belly of the mouse? Is the whole wheel external, with just the shaft > entering the mouse, or is the wheel internal, with one edge sticking out > through a slot in the mouse? > > In the Honeywell mouse, the entire wheel is outside the mouse body > (fitting into an indentation in the belly) with just the shaft entering > the mouse. Same for the DEC mouse; only the shaft goes in the case. > > Using two of their massive plastic coated T connectors and four > > of their massive plastic coated terminators and one ordinary T > > connector, along with one hocky puck mouse, it's easy to create > > a fairly realistic model of the starship Enterprise: > > Sometimes you worry me... 8-). > > =========================================================================== > > Terry's DEC Enterprise model (ask about our other kits) > > =========================================================================== > > Ok... What other kits do you have? :) There's the two-QBUS-continuity-card "butterfly"... There's the "console baud selector" planetary defense pod... There's the 4 terminator/2 'T' connector/1 modem "Shuttlecraft Galileo"... There's the "all the DEC and non-DEC ethernet connectors in the whole department" model of "Space Station Freedom". And there's the three TK-50 "Borg collective ship"... 8-). 8-). > > I'm suprised that no one else realised this -- after all, the VAX/VMS > > system clock starts at Stardate 1. 8-). > > What exactly is Stardate 1? The first spaceflight. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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