At Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:10:28 +1000, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?
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> An original, hand-wire-wrapped Jerq board, later renamed Blit because of
> marketing. Also the original mouse, made by Prof Nicoud's lab and signed by
> him on the bottom.
The mice that came with the DMD-5620s, the Dépraz Mouse, "Made in
Switzerland" (one of mine says "Type D 85 / P") looks very similar. I
have one in an original AT&T package too.
Ah yes. Mice. I still have two new-in-their-boxes DEC Hawley puck mice. VSXXX-AA, with two rollers.
They kept tracking reliably whereas the ball variant always got gunked up and skipped, but our DEC mice tended to succumb to Nettrek disease, where the left button would get clicked to death, and the replacements were inevitably the ball version.
I never managed to source a wheel version at the time to just carry with me. Got two years later, planning to give one to a friend a few months older than me for his collection. Cancer intervened and he is several years gone now, alas.