Subj : Re: Computer Broken
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Sep 12 2025 15:31:30

  Re: Re: Computer Broken
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to apam on Fri Sep 12 2025 07:01:04

Hi, pF.

 > Don't know if I could
 > tolerate a mechanical mouse again - I spent most of the '90s cleaning
 > mouse gerb out of the workings...

I remember when optical mice (without the special 'graph paper' reflective mat) started to become mainstream. "What a pointless change", I thought at the time.

Now in the 2020s I get to use a ball mouse (or "mouse", as they used to be called) again and... Man, are they crap!

I spent an embarrassingly long time thinking my ball mouse was broken - actually it was too begin with, an ex school mouse which has a Phillips screw to stop kids pinching the ball and so some genius had tried to pry it out with a pencil and made the circular hole no longer circular. Anyway, I continued heating and straightening and sanding that long after I probably needed to because I forgot the golden rule: ball mice need a mouse mat!

Well, I don't have any of them but the cardboard back of a writing pad works a lot better than my shiny desktop.

BobW
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