3-Button Mice - An Endangered Species?

eschasi asks: "eschasi recently got a new job, which includes a new PC on which to run UNIX and X. After much grovelling through the vendor catalog and the used equipment boxes for a simple 3-button mouse, he finally had to bring one from home. Shortly thereafter he was browsing the local CompUSAs and BestBuys, and saw not a single actual 3-button mouse. Oh yes, there were things which masqueraded as 3-button mice, but they weren't. They were scroll mice where you had to depress the scroll to get a middle click, or where the third button was under the thumb, or where the third button was unreachable because of the scroll. Sun's still come with 3-button mice, so there must be some being made. Are these still in the retail market anywhere? Frankly, they're too small for eschasi's big hands. The only place a basic 3-button mouse was found for sale was eBay, and they guy selling it called it 'rare.' Is the classic 3-button mouse largely dead? If so, what are you folks moving toward?"

Comments

Button Numbers on Mice

[Bombcar]

Didn't you get the memo? The number of buttons is like the size of the subwoofer or speed of the processor! Get with the timez!

1 button mouse: Click your single |3u770n, n00b!
2 button mouse: Stiff, corporate dweeb.
3 button mouse: Trying to be cool
5 button mouse: Cool in a Yugo sort of way
7 button mouse: Almost there.
9 button mouse with scroll wheel: H4x0r g0d!

Of course, I blow everyone away with my 105 button mouse.....

105 button mouse

[satanami69]

I was hoping to see a keyboard that had a mouse wheel sticking out the bottom and you'd have to move it around with two hands.

So disappointing...

Costanza

[irix]

eschasi asks: "eschasi recently got a new job..."

George is getting upset!

Re:Scroll wheel

[Thing 1]

I for one find the soft rubbery click of the scroll wheel a sublime tactile sensation.

Your finger goes from solid form to gaseous without stopping at the liquid state in between? Neat!

PS Welcoming the sublimating overlords as well. ;-)

Re:What I want

[kommakazi]

Maybe you should be contacting the patent office rather than telling everyone your (imho) really good idea.

Re:How is a scroll wheel mouse not a three button?

[IM6100]

What is 'Intellipoint'? I've never installed one of those CD's that came with a MS wheel mouse into Windows. And I've never seen an 'intellipoint' app on my X based machine (NetBSD with fvwm2).

The middle button simply acts as the third button on my machine.

Re:For God's sake

[Zork the Almighty]

ASK SLASHDOT to fuck my girldfriend for me?

If you're girlfriend is an internet server (plausible), that can be arranged.