Rumor has it that Sark may have mentioned these words:
>>The same Stores also once such their ID plate on the bottom of a mouse,
>>over the ball (!). OK, that one didn't do any real damage, but...
>
>A similar thing happened where I work. They etched the name into the
>bottom of the mice on several Macintosh computers... But the tool they
>used created raised edges around the letters, so therefore the mice
>wouldn't work very well, because it would catch and drag on the mousemat.
>I've also seen a similar thing happen, where they used a soldering iron
>to melt the ball covers in place on the Macintosh mice, and this dragged
>on the mousemat even worse, and the mice soon became useless junk because
>the mechanism got so dirty it wouldn't work. To fix these, we had to
>unscrew the top cover of the mouse and disassemble it to clean it. It was
>a real pain. And they thought people would steal mouse balls WHY?
That's an easy one... Way back when, most mouse balls were just solid
rubber and/or plastic... and they sucked. A few of the "good" mice (that
ran $50+ at the time) had the steel-ball-covered-with-rubber balls and were
1) rather rare, and 2) highly sought after. When I was a tech, when one of
the "good mice" died horribly, the first thing I did was grab the heavier
ball before it hit "File 13." Over the next few months, as the next few
"good mice" died, I *made sure* I had at least a few spares, because on
occasion (when my mouse didn't work nearly so well) I found my nice, heavy,
steel-core mouse ball had "grown legs"... :-/
I had to get rather "inventive" on where to hide my spares so they didn't
disappear, either... :-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch_at_30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Sat Oct 26 2002 - 12:33:01 BST