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What Is PC MOUSE???? PC MOUSE FACT SHEET September 1983 What is PC MOUSE???? PC Mouse is a small hand-held pointing and selecting device used to move the cursor on your screen. As you slide PC Mouse on the mouse pad, the cursor moves correspondingly. Three buttons on top of mouse allow you to activate functions by the use of pop-up menus. PC Mouse software with pop-up menus has been created for some of your favorite software programs: Lotus 1 -2-3™, Personal Editor™, VisiCalc®, WordStar®, Volkswriter™ and Multiplan™. The pop-up menus are transparent to the underlying program, and no modification to your existing software is required. Pop-up menus allow you to select and execute commands at the press of a button. No longer do you have to memorize commands. Even if you are an expert typist, moving around in spreadsheets and wordprocessors will be faster and easier than ever before. PC Mouse interfaces through an RS-232 asynchronous communication port. Since there are no moving parts, no maintenance or cleaning is required. PC Mouse software is compatible with PC-DOS 1.10 and 2.00. Only 10K of memory and disk space are used by the mouse driver. ""—signifies manufacturers' trademark -"'—signifies manufacturers' registered trademark APPLICATION: With the help of the function buttons/pop-up menus, PC Mouse can be used to do word processing, spreadsheets and graphics. PC MOUSE PACKAGE INCLUDES: HARDWARE Optical mouse and pad, RS-232 interface box and cable, and a power supply. SOFTWARE Pop-up menu software Version 2.0 provides pop-up menus for Lotus 1 -2-3, Personal Editor, VisiCalc, WordStar, Volkswriter, and Multiplan. COMPATIBLE WITH: IBM PC and all PC compatibles; PC-DOS 1.10 and PC-DOS 2.00 Mouse Size: 3.85" x 2.60" x 1.06" (9.8 cm x 6.6 cm x 2.8 cm) Mouse Weight: 3.50 oz. (100 g) Mouse Systems Corporation 2336H Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 988-0211 —Main Lotus Menu Anchor CalcMenu Edit Select Cancel Lotus 1 -2-3 <( Range Name [ENTER] [ESCAPE] Window Help Home End Exit Pop-up Main Replicate No Change Relative CalcMenu File Menu More Menus VisiCalc [ENTER] [ESCAPE] Edit Blank Delete Insert Change Window Home Exit Pop-up •Main- Data Cursor Command Cursor Next Field Calc Menu Help Confirm (Yes) Page Up Multiplan Page Down [ENTER] [ESCAPE] Top of Worksheet Page Left Page Right Next Window Next Unlocked Cell Exit Pop-up SPREADSHEET POP-UP MENUS Mouse Systems Corporation 2336H Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 988-0211 •Edit- Motion •File- Text Menu Execute Directory A: Line Menu Locate Forward Directory B: Block Menu Locate Backward Change Buffers Help Menu Change Menu Goto Delete Buffer Settings Menu Page Up Edit File IBM Exit Pop-up Page Down Name File Personal Top of File Print File Editor Bottom of File Save File Command Line Quit Exit Pop-up Save & Quit Confirm (Yes) Deny(No) Exit Pop-up •Edit' Motion •File- Delete Word Find Write File Delete Line Replace Read File Begin Block Screen Up Print End Block Screen Down Help On/Off Delete Block Beginning of Text Reset Move Block End of Text Volkswriter Menu Copy Block Reset Volkswriter Exit Pop-up Insert On/Off Exit Pop-up Set Tabs & Margins Reformat Center Reset Exit Pop-up Edit' Motion File Block Menu Screen Up Save & Resume Delete Menu Screen Down Abandon File Style Menu Top of File Print Find and Replace Menu Bottom of File Delete Options Menu Goto Previous Place Read Dot Commands Menu Exit Pop-up Exit Pop-up WordStar Edit Answer Menu Center Reform Exit Pop-up WORD PROCESSING POP-UP MENUS Mouse Systems Corporation 2336H Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 988-0211 MOUSE SYSTEMS CORPORATION Prices effective September 1, 1983 SUGGESTED PRODUCT RETAIL PRICE PC Mouse package includes: Hardware $295.00 Mouse, mouse pad, interface to RS-232C, and power supply. Works with the IBM PC and PC compatibles (PC-DOS Versions 1.10 and 2.00). Software Pop-up menu software for PC Mouse. Works with Lotus 1-2-3, Personal Editor, VisiCalc, WordStar, Volkswriter, and Multiplan (Version 2.0). Other MSC Products Available FieldMouse™ $275.00 Mouse, mouse pad, interface to RS-232C, and power supply. Software not included. Pop-up Menu $95.00 Pop-up menu software for PC Mouse. Works with Lotus 1-2-3, Personal Editor, VisiCalc, WordStar, Volkswriter, and Multiplan (Version 2.0). MouseWindow™ $69.00 Software development package for the IBM PC and PC compatibles (PC-DOS Versions 1.0 and 2.00). Manipulates graphical objects on the Hercules and IBM color graphics cards. Supersedes all previous price lists. Prices subject to change without notice. Mouse Systems Corporation 2336H Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 988-0211 What is PC Mouse? PC Mouse combines an optical mouse with pop-up menu software to allow you to quickly and easily move the cursor and select commands without using the keyboard. What will PC Mouse do for me? PC Mouse will make almost all of your software easier to learn and use. Since it allows you to rapidly position the cursor on the screen, you don't have to memorize all sorts of strange command sequences to move around in a spreadsheet or text document. Since PC Mouse supports a "pop- up" menu style of interaction, many commands can be issued without typing and without using the keyboard. Commands are selected from a list, so memorization of complicated command codes as well as "typos" are eliminated. What are Pop-up menus? The latest PC Mouse software is called Pop-up menu software. Unlike fixed menus, pop-up menus appear on the screen when needed, and disappear when the desired command is selected. The pop-up menus are completely transparent to the underlying program. The menus take up no screen space except when they are actually being used. Since the same pop-up menu style of interaction is used with all programs, you are presented with a consistent user interface across all applications. To date, MSC has developed pop-up menus for: Lotus 1-2-3 WordStar VisiCalc Personal Editor Multiplan Volkswriter Why should I use PC Mouse with Lotus 1-2-3? Pop-up-menu software makes Lotus 1 -2-3 easy to learn and fast to use. You'll like the way you can move around in your spreadsheet with PC Mouse in your left hand while entering numerical data with your right hand. Buttons two and three can be used for extra speed. PC Mouse software is automatically installed during "boot-up" and fits on your Lotus 1 -2-3System disk. Is PC Mouse difficult to install? No. All necessary hardware is supplied by Mouse Systems. Simply plug one end of the RJ11C cable into the interface box, and the other end into the RS232C (COM1) port of your PC. After a short calibration routine, PC Mouse is ready to use. PC Mouse software can be installed on your program disk using a one line installation procedure. The software uses less than 10K of disk space. Mouse Systems Corporation 2336H Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 988-0211.
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