Re: Apple's Mice

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

NON-ADB Apple mice I have known--

First there was the Lisa mouse.  One of the rectangular box contraptions,
with a rectangular button across the top.

When the Macintosh came out, the DB-9 connector changed a little (the Lisa
had a squeeze latch on it, the Mac used thumbscrews), and the button got
longer but less wide.  I think that for both the Lisa and the Mac, the
button is dark while the case is Apple Beige.

Then came the Apple ][ mouse for the //c and ][e.  These are more rounded
than the Macintosh mouse, and the button and the case are the same color. 
These are a lighter color, somewhere between beige and white. 
Electrically, all three of these mice (the Lisa, Macintosh, and A][ mice)
are all the same...the Lisa mouse will work on a ][e mouse card.

Ummm...I think that was about the time that the ADB was introduced, and
the GS mouse was the first of the ADB mice.  I don't think Apple ever
built a rectangular, flat-topped ADB mouse...the GS mouse was the first
step towards the big round things they're building now.  I don't know how
many variations of ADB mouse there have been.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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