Comment Quite the historian... (Score 2, Interesting) 110
Hoo boy, the reviewer over at LANParty has really been around...
Since the introduction of optical mouse a couple of years ago, the technology has evolved many times already...
I had an optical mouse on my '286 - that would be back in '88 or '89, I think. It needed a goofy mousepad with gridlines on it, but just like the ones today, it didn't get gunked up and it worked pretty well. It's pretty pathetic to hear these "veterans" speak about hardware like they's seen a lot. Probably some snot-nosed 17-year-old who thinks Linus invented Unix a few years back...
-HL
Since the introduction of optical mouse a couple of years ago, the technology has evolved many times already...
I had an optical mouse on my '286 - that would be back in '88 or '89, I think. It needed a goofy mousepad with gridlines on it, but just like the ones today, it didn't get gunked up and it worked pretty well. It's pretty pathetic to hear these "veterans" speak about hardware like they's seen a lot. Probably some snot-nosed 17-year-old who thinks Linus invented Unix a few years back...
-HL
