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Used Atari/Happ trackball with different optic boards: what should I do ?
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Chris:
Good haul!  I think we all officially hate you now.   ;D
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: Chris on July 07, 2004, 12:00:49 pm ---Good haul!  I think we all officially hate you now.   ;D

--- End quote ---
Yep, great finds.

Regarding the optic boards, as long as the boards work, I think you'll be fine as is, but since you don't want to hear that (half the fun of this hobby is tinkering with stuff):

http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/a052101000.htm  These are the Cadillac "Red" optic boards.  A little pricey at $19.75 each, though.

http://www.therealbobroberts.com/ has the standard Happ Optic boards for $15.00 each.

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?DT=1 sells his optic boards for $7.50 each, but you might have to do some engineering to get them to fit in the case.

http://www.ultimarc.com/optipac4.html  - The real low buget option.

http://www.cheeptech.com/cuhack.html - The extreme low buget option - if you read through this, he is using the original optics as well as the electronics of the mouse hack to "read" the trackball encoder wheels.

Hope it helps!!!
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