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

[Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@baldcom.net>]

Nathan Mates 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 would imagine that by "glide surfaces" he means those little slick plastic pads 
on the underside of modern mice that allow better, well, gliding.
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