Mice that came with eacga

[walterg74]

Having purchased a few Amigas over the years, and some of those having come with a commodore mouse, others with those hybrid amiga/atari ones, etc., i wanted to have "complete sets" of each computer, in terms of keyboard and mouse.

The thing is I see a lot of contradictory or incomplete information regarding mice and which one is really "the original mouse that came with the Amiga xxxx".

Besides some obvious(?) ones like for example the Amiga 1000 and the tank mouse with angled connector, does anybody know of a list pairing each Amiga model with the original mouse model that came with it? :confused:

[walterg74]

AFAIK only the A1000,  A500, A2000 shipped with the straight edge "tank" style, at least in the UK. Everything A500+ onwards came with a rounded mouse.

Best way to check would be looking through old magazines and scope out the package shots in advertisements, but not many really liked using the originals. They were uncomfortable for many people. For the minority they were great.

Don't ask me why, I never cared, so long as the thing worked I was happy. It's not like I ever saw an Amiga with original packaging, intact.

Maybe the rarest is the CDTV controller. That I was impressed with - cut down keyboard, mouse, joystick, all in one wireless package. It was huge, but all the buttons were useful.

So according to what you recall, the A1000 would have come with the "classic" Tank mouse with angled connector (maybe some later ones with the straight one too?) and the same for the 500 and 2000, and then from the 500+ onwards what, this one of my first screenshot?

What about the second screenshot? Is this just some modern day clone/contraption, or did that mouse originally exist too at the time and was just an alternative to buy separately?

Good idea to look at magazine ads too.

[walterg74]

That left mouse came with some A1200's and possibly some A600's. The one on the right is newer, not Commodore but Amiga Technologies I think, so certainly post 1995.

Ok, good to know! So at least it's not a knockoff then?

[walterg74]

The one on the left is what came with my A1200 in 1992. A4000's came with these too. The one on the right is like your last picture, so newer also than the tank and came with A1200's and possibly late A600's and A4000's (as it looks newer that the one on the left). I don't think anyone will know for sure. I suppose you could start a survey to find out what mouse people received with their new Amigas - I think the results will be mixed though.

Hmm... the one on the far right in your pic is not like the on on the right of my pics... this one is straight/symmetrical, the one I posted has a different shape. Here's a better look.




Edit: Guess you meant the one on your right being the same than the one on my left