Re: Help: need documentation for cards (PAL encoder, Mockingboard)

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4up01c$dre@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <4uo3g1$4pk@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
>Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu> wrote:
>>Lastly, I also obtained an Apple Mouse model #A2M4015 with an external
>>game port connector (like a joystick, paddles, or koalapad).  It doesn't
>>seem to have any glide surfaces like found on modern mice.  
>
>   Define 'glide surfaces like found on modern mice' please. A mouse
>is something you move around with your hand-- my PC has a very nice
>modern mouse on it, and it has a ball in the bottom just like other
>real mice. Plenty of computers are still being sold with mechanical or
>optical mice; only certain notebooks have taken up the fad of
>touchpads. Just because there are a few touchpads (the correct term
>for them) nowadays that can act like mice doesn't mean that all mice
>must look and act like them.

I figure he means the clearish smooth plastic pieces glued onto the bottom
of ADB mice. Mac Plus and Apple II mice have little round legs which wear 
out and can scratch your desk if you don't have a pad and do have a heavy
mouse hand.
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