Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)

Re:Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983) by MegaDeKay on Sunday March 03, 2024 @11:56AM (#39582053)

And you'd have to pop the ball out every now and then to clean the crud that had built up on the x & y rollers that otherwise made the on-screen pointer stick and skip. Good times.

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Re:Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983) by hyperdimension on Sunday March 03, 2024 @12:49PM (#39582590)

And even though we're well into the future of optical mice, when my Bluetooth mouse disconnects for a few seconds, the habit of thunking it on the desk a couple times persists... (to unstick the ball)

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Re:Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983) by dhosek on Sunday March 03, 2024 @10:17PM (#39586732)

Then there were the first-gen optical mice which required special mousepads with a grid on them for the mouse to know how it was being moved.

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