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Subject: Correction/apology re Xerox Dandilion
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 00:36:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 00:36:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas 

When I made the first-use-of-mouse critique of the Dandilion a couple
days ago I forgot to qualify my remarks that we're a beta test site
for Dandilions and accompanying software that is not yet released as a
commercial product. Surely by the time it's released the problems I
mentionned should be fixed. Thus my message should be read as a
warning that mice can be bad, and that it's hard to get them to work
(or the problem would have been fixed during alpha-test instead of
left unfixed until beta-test) not that any product from Xerox would be
bad when delivered to real customers. My apology for any embarassment
to Xerox.

Just for curiosity, does anybody with real commercially-released mice
(from any company, not necessarily Xerox) have problems like I had
with the mouse sliding instead of rolling, or dragging the whole pad
with it? I'm addressing my question mostly to first-time users.
Apparently with very careful coordination it's possible for the user
to compensate for mouse deficiencies.