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

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4uson7$1kj@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Will Baguhn <wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>In article <4up01c$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. 

>"Glide Surfaces" are hard plastic areas of a different (slippery)
>material that poke down from the rest of the bottom of the mouse
>a bit, so that's what the mouse rests on (so there's not too much
>pressure on the ball, and the bottom of the mouse doesn't wear
>out).

    Not quite the name I'd give to them; I thought he was confusing a
mouse with of those 'glidepoint touchpad' surfaces. Anyhow, probably
coincidentally, my GS's mouse had the slick plastic "glide surface"
come off a few weeks ago-- apparently the glue eventually flaked out.
My mouse works just fine without it.

Nathan Mates

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