a moment of silence...

[Hemingray]

Originally posted by Luke9
I prefer the one button (no button) and command key combo...it just feels more natural ... 😀

You won't get very far with just the one button and command key... 😉 I take it you mean control! Sorry, but after I switched to a three-button mouse with scroll wheel, I'll never ever go back!

 

[Luke9]

Hemingray

touche' .....I stand corrected ....should wake myself BEFORE I start typing ..lol lol 😉

 

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by Hemingray


You won't get very far with just the one button and command key... 😉 I take it you mean control! Sorry, but after I switched to a three-button mouse with scroll wheel, I'll never ever go back!

I have to agree there... I have an optical three button mouse at work and home (both Macally ioptinet mice) and a logitech 3 button deal on the game peecee. It's faster to use the scroll wheel to browse pages, files, documents and the like. Much easier then using the keyboard combinations, except for Apple+arrow (up or down) to get to the top and/or bottom of a web page.

I wouldn't voluntarily give up any of my optical mice, except to replace them with better ones... 😀

 

[crassusad44]

Re: Apple mice are useless!

Originally posted by barkmonster
I've had to replace the mouse I got with my beige G3 (bought early '98 as a cheap end of life deal) twice already. They just screw up in some way, loose connections here, worn out microswitch there.

The Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II (the one that came with the G3) that came with my Performa 450 (LC III), still works. So does the mouse that came with my Performa 5300, and the PowerMac 6400 and a beige G3/266. The LC III is now 9 yrs old. Damn, I'm gettin' old 😱

 

[King Cobra]

crassusad, if you think that the LC III goes way back, my father has an Apple IIgs in his mini-home office. I think he has used it until he got his Yosemite G3. The mouse on the IIgs worked very well, but was a little slow.

It looked a little like this:

 

[Postal]

Wow, King, that looks like the original Mac's mouse (if memory serves)... I'm wondering how it worked on an Apple II! For obvious reasons most Apple II users never used a mouse, and didn't have a reason to use one outside of perhaps a paint program.

 

[King Cobra]

Postal, welcome to the forums. 🙂

I remember using that mouse as clear as a bell (which means I should be able to see through walls as well 😀). I used a painting program on the IIgs for years, before I even reached double digits in age. The mouse was mostly smooth, but you could hear the trackball underneath if the room was quiet enough. I don't remember if there was an option to speed up the mouse on screen or not, but with the way it was set up, you had to move the mouse a rather significant distance to get from one side of the screen to the other, which I think was 512x384. The color was sort of like an old super-light yellow paint wall and was shaped with less smoother edges. As for the button, I had to apply a bit of force to the rectangular figure. And, finally, it was a tad uncomfortable to maneuver.

Any more questions about the mouse? I didn't think so. 😎

 

[G5orbust]

Originally posted by AlphaTech
You can get a MacAlly iOptiNet mouse for about $30 (US) depending on where you shop. Since it's optical, you don't have to worry about your mouse getting dirty balls... 😛

Seems like all you crazy Canadians pay about 2x what we pay for items down here in the US... makes me glad to be an American 😛 😀.

Haha, good pun Alpha.

 

[G5orbust]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Postal, welcome to the forums. 🙂

I remember using that mouse as clear as a bell (which means I should be able to see through walls as well 😀). I used a painting program on the IIgs for years, before I even reached double digits in age. The mouse was mostly smooth, but you could hear the trackball underneath if the room was quiet enough. I don't remember if there was an option to speed up the mouse on screen or not, but with the way it was set up, you had to move the mouse a rather significant distance to get from one side of the screen to the other, which I think was 512x384. The color was sort of like an old super-light yellow paint wall and was shaped with less smoother edges. As for the button, I had to apply a bit of force to the rectangular figure. And, finally, it was a tad uncomfortable to maneuver.

Any more questions about the mouse? I didn't think so. 😎

Yeah, welcome Postal. Nice to have new joiners that dont first post annoying PDA posts (im one of the evil ones). But anyways, to the point. Those were great mice. If you kept em clean, they were great at tracking. i used my first apple mouse @ age 2 or 3. Ahh, good times.