Re: Little Mouse

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:H8Vmc.25695$LA4.6898@edtnps84...
: Bill Garber wrote:
:
: > I find that in a pinch a nice 24# sheet of printer
: > paper works very well as a mouse pad. And you can
: > print a pattern for your optical to follow on the
: > upper half, then fold. I do that when my present
: > pad is too dirty to catch the ball and I just fold
: > it in half, lay it over the pad I have and it works
: > great until I can get out to pick up or order a new
: > mouse pad. Try it. You may be pleasantly surprised.
:
: Um, the Little Mouse is one of the early optical mice. There is
no
: ball and it doesn't work using paper as a mousepad. It needs
: something more reflective with alternating dark so black print
on
: aluminum works but paper or regular mousepads don't. The little
Mouse
: originally came with a special mouse pad as ordinary ones don't
work
: with it.

Yeah, the earlier ones needed the reflective
urface, where the later models just need a
pattern of dark on light. I'd like to know
the difference between how they work, if you
find out. I mean what is the difference in
the actual hardware.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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