On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Mark Tapley wrote:
> >So, first open up the mouse, and clean the dirt out of the sensors....
>
> While it's open, I also recommend you check continuity of the wires in the
> cable. I've had a mouse fail because there was a serious kink in one of the
> wires in the cable. That cable gets a lot of flexing and the kink
> eventually broke that wire.
Good thought. There aren't any obvious kinks, but there are all kinds of
reasons a cable might fail.
> I got an intermittent fault so I could localize
> it by bending the cable manually and fix it by slitting the cable open,
> splicing the wire, and taping it back up. That's not a very elegant fix,
> but it worked. A whole new cable with a new connector at the end would be
> nicer.
I did the same thing with the cable on my Apple ]['s light pen, but it
didn't last very long. I'd like to replace the cable, but the card is
sealed in epoxy or something (nice solid black block of "stuff") and I
haven't managed to open the pen itself, either.
That light pen was an interesting device, with the most hilariously bad
Japanese English manual, and I'd like to get it working again. I'll put
that on my (ever-lengthening) "to do" list as well.
> - Mark
Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
Received on Sat Aug 15 1998 - 23:52:24 BST