Re: Need mouse for GS

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

In article <3AUG199600082624@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>In article shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...
>>
>>In article <hochstrasse-3007962028070001@ppp-1.urz.unibas.ch>,
>>Urs Hochstrasser <hochstrasse@ubaclu.unibas.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>>I did also a little experiment: I plugged my Mac's 'Apple Desktop Mouse
>>>II' (the round one) into my ROM 03 GS, and it worked just fine.
>> 
>>Yepper, I swapped a mouse II onto my IIgs long ago. It's much better.
>
>   I'd have to disagree. I find the ADB Mouse II has less of a feel
>than the original ADB Mouse, which for one thing the latter has a 
>weighted ball (metal with rubber skin) and modest sized button.
>The new mice remind me of that short time Apple shipped the original
>ADB mouse with a smaller, hollow plastic ball to cut production costs
>(around 1989, when the ROM 3 was introduced). I Also dislike the tear-
>drop shape or the fact the entire back end of the new mouse is now a 
>huge button. 

Depends on when you got a mouse II. I just got one of the new made in China
mouse IIs. It has a heavy grey ball. I also have one of the early made
in Malaysia mouse IIs and the in between one, made in Taiwan. The only
problem any of 'em has is a sticky button problem the Malaysian has on my
Quadra. Sometimes when you press the button and let off, the Mac thinks
the button is still down until you press it again. For some reason it
doesn't do this on my ROM 3 IIgs. I'd avoid that one though just the same.

>   I suppose it's a matter of taste though, I'm sure there are still 
>a handul of people who have a preference for the original Mac 128/IIe/c 
>mouse! ;) (ick!)

It took me about one try to decide I like the mouse II better than the 
original. I don't mind the Mac Plus mouse too bad either aside from how it has
those little plastic legs that wear out pretty fast if you use it rough.
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