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I didn't really enjoy that article because I find it to thin on technical history and engineering. It's mostly about one man's experience with buying a compute
by bobowzki 7y ago
I didn't really enjoy that article because I find it to thin on technical history and engineering.
It's mostly about one man's experience with buying a computer mouse.
- coldtea 7y agoThe premise is totally correct though, and not just "one man's experience": that generation of MS mice changed the mainstream mouse landscape towards laser-based mice. (I've used such before, on Sun workstations, but PC as users we didn't have that luxury, we had the easy to clog and collect dust, potentially jumpy, not very accurate balls in our mice).
- closetohome 7y agoTo be fair, they beat the rest of the market to optical mice by a few months, but everybody used the same third party sensor/chip.
- tjoff 7y agoThe shape was also way better than anything that existed back then (from what I recall). Since Microsoft don't have anything in the same segment anymore I have a brutally hard time to purchase a mouse today.
- kalleboo 7y agoWe had an optical Mouse Systems mouse for our Mac Classic in the early 90's, they weren't exclusively the domain of expensive Sun machines.
- jablan 7y agoI've recently watched a review of one of those, paired with a computer from back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhA25qjL8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhA25qjL8Q
- slantyyz 7y agoI had the Mouse Systems A+ optical mouse with the metal mousepad for my Mac SE, and it was great for the time.
- rasz 7y agoHere you go - Oral History of Gary Gordon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxxoWhCzIeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxxoWhCzIeU HP engineer (later Avago), inventor of the sensor.