mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

[dep]

begin  Bruce Marshall's  quote:

| Oh well....  I think what's current in the Expert Mouse line is the
| Pro now....  with four big buttons and 6 small ones on the top
| edge... and a wheel above the ball.

they still apparently have the plain old expert mouse: 
http://www.kensington.com/html/1175.html which is what i'm using. i 
want all four buttons to work (as it is, i have two left and two 
right) before i start adding more buttons! i don't suppose you know 
of anyone who has done up a way of assigning discrete functions to 
the buttons, do you? they actually ported mouseworks to OS/2, and i 
was able to get some nice functioning out of it. though truth be 
known, having two left and two right is not bad, in that i can click 
no matter what my hand position, which reduces fatigue.

| The Version5's I use are pretty recent....  I'm now buying them off
| of eBay while they last.  I think your V5 could also have attached
| as a PS/2.

the new cord they sent had a 9-pin serial to ps2 adapter, which i'm 
not using but which is nice to have. i've fiddled a little with the 
old one, and there is something goofy, which is to say intermittent, 
in the cord connector on the trackball itself. if i had a wiring 
diagram, i'd try either to fix the connector itself or to hardwire 
the cord, because the old one does work a lot more smoothly than the 
new one. the old one is considerably heavier, and looking inside i 
see it is far more nicely finished than the new one. i'd love to get 
the old one working. also, and this works for keyboards as well, i've 
found that getting some little peel-and-stick non-skid pads, half the 
size of a postage stamp, and putting 'em on the bottom makes things 
nicer, because i can place the trackball as if it were a rightward 
extension of the keyboard and it will stay there. this is useful in 
going through mail, because the delete key is within thumb's reach 
(well, if you have numlock off, or if you use one of these little 
shorty ibm keyboards).

| There should be a label on the bottom telling you what you have but
| as long as it works, that's what counts.

my old one was definitely a v5; the new one says "expert mouse usb/ps2 
four-button trackball model #64217." i don't know what the old one 
said because i had to peel off the label to take it apart for 
cleaning. (with the new one, i learned, and used an exacto knife to 
cut away the label over the two screws.)
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