A mouse that did not make this story and was the very best mouse of all before there were optical ones was called The HP Wheel Mouse.
This mouse from I believe 1990 had two nylon wheels, on its underside, mounted at a 45 degree angle,which where spring loaded, and each touched the pad or table at 90 degrees from the other.
The HP wheel mouse was only available in RS-232, and it worked on anything, even upside down, and never got clogged up. Inside it used an optical encoder wheel...
I was told that HP sold the patent, when I tried to buy more of them, and the best mouse that you never had to clean, which worked upside down and without a mouse pad disappeared,
There are a number of congruencies between this and the 1995 raids by Scientology...see Alt.Scientology.War cover story in Wired Magazine December 1995.
In 1995 an anonymous remailer in Amsterdam called anon.penit.fi run by Johan Helsingus was visited by police, who sought the the logs, using an excuse (cover story, shore story, suitable guise) that there was pornography involved...
Johan's remailer had been used backthen, for posting Scientology secret rubbish to the net...by a nickname "scamizdat" which turned out to be an ex-scientologist named Joe Harrington... who admitted this on his death bed.
I believe that complaints about the porno turned out have come from scientology...
I just got raided and sued by the scientologists for posting the XENU story, that you guys watched on South Park a while ago..
Wikileaks has been recently publishing thousands of pages of scientology secrets and internal memorandums...
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A mouse that did not make this story and was the very best mouse of all before there were optical ones was called The HP Wheel Mouse. This mouse from I believe 1990 had two nylon wheels, on its underside, mounted at a 45 degree angle,which where spring loaded, and each touched the pad or table at 90 degrees from the other. The HP wheel mouse was only available in RS-232, and it worked on anything, even upside down, and never got clogged up. Inside it used an optical encoder wheel... I was told that HP sold the patent, when I tried to buy more of them, and the best mouse that you never had to clean, which worked upside down and without a mouse pad disappeared,
There are a number of congruencies between this and the 1995 raids by Scientology...see Alt.Scientology.War cover story in Wired Magazine December 1995.
In 1995 an anonymous remailer in Amsterdam called anon.penit.fi run by Johan Helsingus was visited by police, who sought the the logs, using an excuse (cover story, shore story, suitable guise) that there was pornography involved...
Johan's remailer had been used backthen, for posting Scientology secret rubbish to the net...by a nickname "scamizdat" which turned out to be an ex-scientologist named Joe Harrington... who admitted this on his death bed.
I believe that complaints about the porno turned out have come from scientology...
I just got raided and sued by the scientologists for posting the XENU story, that you guys watched on South Park a while ago..
Wikileaks has been recently publishing thousands of pages of scientology secrets and internal memorandums...
Perhaps history is repeating itself?