Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:874 sci.electronics:4368 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!riddle!domo 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 Lines: 13 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