Submitted by southbaytechguru t3_z4hdvq in technology
Karmakazee t1_ixr16me wrote
Reply to comment by Vladimir_Chrootin in Rotten Rodents: The 10 Worst and Weirdest Computer Mice by southbaytechguru
Did anyone even make an optical-mechanical mouse in the 80’s? I thought that was early 2000’s tech.
Vladimir_Chrootin t1_ixr4c91 wrote
Yes, pretty much everyone did by the late '80s, including Apple - the mouse second from the left is an opto-mechanical mouse that replaced it and was becoming standard on new Macs by that time (the ones these mice were plugged into were mainly Mac and Mac Plus models, getting a little obsolete by that point).
I had a Kensington trackball on a PC at the time, which plugged into a serial port (PS/2 didn't really start to proliferate on new PCs until about 1990), and I also used the three-button mouse on the Acorn Archimedes.
wewbull t1_ixu6r9y wrote
Oh yes. Atari ST and Amiga mice were all opto-mechanical.
Optical mice first started early 90s (with special mouse pads) for things like Sun workstations.
At least, that was my experience.
Mupp99 t1_iy72101 wrote
Atari ST mice were terrible when new and only got worse as they aged.
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