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In July 2005 I ran across an ad in Electronic Products [1] for an optical mouse sensor by Agilent Technologies. Like many people, I find using an optical mouse to be superior to the old ball-in-a-cage type mouse (which I first saw demonstrated on the Xerox Star workstation at the National Computer Conference in Dallas, June 1976). Inevitably, I was curious to learn what makes it tick (or "squeak") ... that's my Tinkertoy® mentality at work. I clipped the article, filed it and totally forgot about it until recently.

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        cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
        ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 42, Issue 3
        March 2007
        21 pages
        ISSN:0362-1340
        EISSN:1558-1160
        DOI:10.1145/1273039
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