On Oct 26, 16:14, Tothwolf wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Sark wrote:
> >
> > > And they thought people would steal mouse balls WHY?
> >
> > Because people steal mouse balls. A friend works in a major computer
> > chain store, and I used to work for University of Texas, in IT.
> It isn't just the larger companies or universities that have a problem
> with this either. At one local school where I maintain dozens of older
> systems, some years the kids steal the balls out of the mice. The year
> before last, some kid even stole 6-8 mice (and switched 4 of them out
with
> dead junk mice. This year I'm planning to ty-wrap the cables to something
> behind the systems so that won't happen again. I sure wish I could find a
> lifetime supply of the older 3 button PS/2 Logitech mice. I've found
those
> things to be nearly indestructible in a school, and the younger kids will
> usually find a way to break anything...
Talking of breaking, and mouse balls, you might be amused by the story of
the blackboard and the mouse ball. See the URL below. Oh, and vuft
cricket (mentioned on the same page) is played with the sort of ball you
commonly find near a PC and the sort of bat you commonly find in front of
the same PC (you know, the one with the clicky top surface).
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~bjmi100/uni%20history/compsci.html
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sat Oct 26 2002 - 19:18:00 BST