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supertackyman · 01-30-2008

a puck mouse is what our school called it. it was a mouse that had a set of crosshairs in a clear lens at the top end. surronded by some sort of induction coil that was used on a special pad and sensed its location. this was the early 90's....
it has 16 macro programable buttons. i believe the pad/tablet could also be used with a pen, but we didnt have such luxury there.
remember this was pre windows. (no pull down menus or tool bars) all the commands had to be typed in, so a mouse that did that for ya was real handy.

01-30-2008	#12 (permalink)
supertackyman MOO! Join Date: May 2007 Location: just far enough from sin city to resist temptation Posts: 809 Blog Entries: 42	a puck mouse is what our school called it. it was a mouse that had a set of crosshairs in a clear lens at the top end. surronded by some sort of induction coil that was used on a special pad and sensed its location. this was the early 90's.... it has 16 macro programable buttons. i believe the pad/tablet could also be used with a pen, but we didnt have such luxury there. remember this was pre windows. (no pull down menus or tool bars) all the commands had to be typed in, so a mouse that did that for ya was real handy. __________________ "making the colorblind queasy since 1970"