IBM RS/6000 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Feb 2006

The best mouse/trackball I had was an Atari video arcade trackball that I 
got from Happ Controls and wired to the guts of a cheap PC serial mouse 
(optical sensors on the track ball, electronics from the mouse). This 
trackball measures about 6" x 6" x 2.5" and I had it in a foamcore box.
Used 
1" diameter arcade buttons to replace the mouse buttons. I made it as a 
prototype for a dozen or so that I wired up for use in exhibits at the Field 
Museum of Natural History in Chicago with the computer games I wrote. I used 
the track ball for more than 10 years before I even needed to clean it.

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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:31:24 -0600
From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000
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Teo Zenios wrote:
...

I have one of those Logitech marbles, they work well enough. In general I
like using Microsoft optical on anything they will pug into. The other day 
I
replaced my older belkin KVM with a newer version that does serial to PS2
mouse conversion so that my MS optical USB with PS2 adapter is connected to
the KVM and my old 486/133 DOS/Windows 3.1 machine (using the old MS mouse
driver disk) connected to the KVM with a serial cable works with it. There
is just nothing smoother then an optical mouse in my opinion, and no balls
that need cleaned (or mousepads full of cheet-os to dust off). 
    Mmmm, Cheet-Os!

   You're right about the optical smoothness, which is why I like the
Marble.  It does need cleaning every couple of months, but it's worth it
to avoid the wrist movement of a normal mouse.

ObCC:
   And it works perfectly with RS/6000s, SGIs, NeXTstations, SPARC (with
adapter), AXP, Mac, and even PeeCees!

	Doc