Works ok. Was still using it a few months ago, but the wheel has started to stick a little in one direction, so I replaced it and now use it as a floater.
There was a crud-free mechanical design by Hawley, most commonly seen with VAX and DECstation computers. Patent 4,628,755 (and maybe 3,892,963) describes it and probably prevented popular usage.
It was an Aha! moment for me when I looked a crate with old mice - they have rolling wheels and click buttons with plenty of sample drivers for counting wheel turns, <onclick> <clickrelease> events, etc.
Ain't pretty - but it works until a better version comes along.
It was common for mice not to have wheels. In fact, the mouse that came with the computer shown only had one big button. People needed to be able to actually click on the scroll bar to use it.
Just throwing this in there for anyone who might be reading, there's a product called the Rollermouse that is another good option. Check out Rollermouse Red.
I get that. But the wheel motion on any mouse is bad and I use it a lot. It seems to be on a lot of "ergonomic" mice as well and I'm looking for some other method of wheeling too.
Back in the late '90s, I worked for an inventor dealing with analog dome switches. We took a mouse that had a rocker for scrolling instead of a wheel and I reprogrammed it to "fake" scroll clicks faster or slower depending on how hard you pressed. You could scroll slow enough to read, or zoom to the end of a doc with really good control. Man I miss that mouse.
https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/hawley/wheels.shtml
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