Mouse systems M4 Optical Mouse

[Ray Arachelian]

Teo Zenios wrote:
> I have a Mouse Systems M4 model optical mouse that came with my Amiga 3000 but does not have the special mousepad needed for it, any way to fake one of those pads?
> The only other available mouse I have is for the A1000 and has an angled connector that won't fit unless I jack the A3000 case up a few inches.
>
> How well did the M4s work anyway? I did plug it in to my machine and the buttons seem to work but I could not find a printed patterrn that would make the cursor do anything but barely move (The red LED does light up). I tend to like optical mice so this would be cool to have functioning.
>   
This might help:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2001/10/13/0011.html

and there's one on auction right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUN-3-Button-Mouse-Part-370-1170-01-Optical-Mat_W0QQitemZ190017472555QQihZ009QQcategoryZ23160QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem