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From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
Keywords: induction, magnetic coupling, corrdless mouse
Message-ID: <948@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 13:11:48 GMT
References: <15572@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <16891@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <31811@bbn.COM> <1405@neoucom.UUCP> <1227@microsoft.UUCP> <1381@cpoint.UUCP>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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In article <1381@cpoint.UUCP> die@cpoint.UUCP (David I. Emery) writes:
[Stuff about need for tail-less mice with infra-red or microwave
communications omited.]
>How about plain old induction with the 
>mouse transmitting somewhere in the vlf or lf range on a narrow band
>fsk'd carrier (say 180 khz +- 500 hz)...

Better pitch that away from a band which is used for public broadcast
services in many places outside North America.  But then, Jobs has said
that he has no plans whatever to export the cube...
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp