[Coco] Amiga Systems

[Mark McDougall]

On 16/01/2014 4:15 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> I would argue that point about the amiga mouse being inferior. The premise
> is still the best there ever was because it was absolutely lagless, but the
> mechanical implementations that were foisted off on the amiga people were
> abominable,

Personally, for me the Amiga mouse was used to select a game from the OS and 
was then duly tossed aside to pick up the joystick for the subsequent hour 
or so. So I'm in no position to argue the finer points of lag etc and am 
more than happy to defer to you on the subject, Gene.

The Amiga mouse buttons were, as you put it, abominable and as expected, 
both failed eventually even with my meagre usage of them, to be replaced by 
a couple of micro-switches that required my mouse to forever-after remain 
'topless'.

And of course the ball was a dirt/goo magnet; I was forever cleaning that.

Anyway, my point was that the ergonomic design and mechanical construction 
of modern PS/2 mice means that you never have to deal with these issues 
again. So it would come down to the lag issue - a personal preference.

Regards,

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