[2123] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Vendor-supplied mouse replacement timewarp.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Feb 10 02:05:10 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:01:22 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200002100701.CAA18697@mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
CC: owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[968] in Fuzzballs_and_Owls"
>> Well, the 2 button mice that come with the Dell Linux machines are
>> in an analagous position. In order to maintain the most graceful
>> compatibility with Athena documentation, we should spend something under
>> $20 per machine, and get 3 button mice.
>>
>> We should establish the standard that Linux Athena cluster machines get
>> 3 button mice. This will help ease the support burden greatly.
Logitech being the canonical provider of PC mice, I looked in the
NECX catalog for something suitable. NECX #124806 is a 3 Button PS/2
mouse that should be perfectly sufficient for our needs, with a unit
price of $15.58. Assuming no one has a strong hatred of Logitech, would
it be possible for Marine to order some of these for the machines in the
w20 cluster?
Garry
