Looking for optical grid mouse pad

[Rico Pajarola]

Congrats on that amazing find.

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 5:24 PM Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:

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> A week ago, I took possession of a second Ardent Titan graphics
> supercomputer, and unlike the other Titan, this one is almost complete.
> There is one tiny bit missing, and that is a mouse pad. The mouse used with
> this systems is a Mouse Systems M4 variant (M4Q), and it does not appear to
> be a normal serial mouse. So, if anyone has one of those reflective
> mousepads with a grid of fine blue and grey lines that they don’t need, I’d
> be very happy to have it.
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> I have tried to print my own mousepad, but the mouse only works in the y
> direction on it.
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there were 2 versions of that mousepad, and the symptom of using the wrong
one was that the mouse would only move in one direction.

There was another version of the print-it-yourself mouse pad that's
essentially just white noise, have you tried that?


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> For those who want to know, the Titan is outfitted as follows:
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> 2 x Titan P3 vector processors (using a MIPS R3000 for scalar operations)
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> 2 x 64 MB main memory
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> Extended G2 Graphics
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> 3 Maxtor 760 MB disks
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> QIC-120 tapedrive
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> 19” trinitron monitor with stereo bezel and 3d glasses
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> Keyboard, mouse, knob box
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> Titan OS 4.2 installed (plus version 3.0, 4.1, and 4.2 installation tapes)
> Dore, AVS, and PHIGS+ graphics environments
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> Vectorizing FORTRAN compiler with LINPACK, EISPACK, and FFT libraries
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> Matlab-Pro 3.5 (the Titan was the only computer ever that had Matlab as
> part of its bundled programs)
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> Biodesign Biograf 3.0 molecular modeling application
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> All bits and pieces, and all software appears to work.
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> Camiel
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