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From: "Tom Duff" <td@pix...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] not just 3-button mice
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:03:33 -0800

> There is a *lot* of old computer gear I wish
> I'd held onto so I could use it now instead of
> the cruft that has replaced it.
Yes -- I slavaged a half dozen of the hemispherical
red Depraz mice used on Jerqs from the trash at
Bell Labs.  They're the most pleasant mice ever made,
but are obsolete because they were made before the
advent of serial mouse interfaces.  A simple PIC
project ought to bring them back to life...