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- Subject: Re: Sticky Mouse Revisited
- Message-ID: <1346@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- From: macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
- Date: 4 Jan 93 14:30:42 GMT
- Sender: news+@pitt.edu
- References: <17723@umd5.umd.edu> <erwin.725308762@trwacs> <1992Dec26.194730.862@fys.ruu.nl>
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
- Keywords: mouse problem
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- In article <1992Dec26.194730.862@fys.ruu.nl> walsteyn@fys.ruu.nl (Fred Walsteijn) writes:
- >In <erwin.725308762@trwacs> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
- >>Apparently this sticky mouse problem is a global bug in Macs running
- >>System 7.
- >
- >It also happened on my Mac IIsi running each of:
- > 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 7.0, 7.0.1, with Tuneup 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1.
-
- I *think* this was discussed "to death" a long time ago... and it was traced
- to being a hardware problem with the button. This same button is used in
- "black-balled" mouse (Made in Tiawan?) and the "late-model" grey-ball mouse
- (made in Malaysia)... both mice have a "family number" of G5431. The old
- "Made in USA" grey-ball mouse never (to my knowledge) exhibited this problem.
-
- My Classic's "black ball" occasionally has the problem, and when I took my
- mouse to work and plugged it onto an old 6.0.5 SE, the problem followed right
- along. The SE has never exhibited this before or since (I did this a year
- or so ago). This "firms up" the belief that *at least in my case* it IS a
- hardware problem.
-
- It survived the 6.0.7 - 7.0.1 transition on my machine also, BTW.
-
- -- Opinion begins here --
-
- I personally also believe that all "black ball" mice should be "black balled"
- because the ball is too light to track properly... this also carries over to
- Logitech mice on IBMs (same cheap mechanism).
-
- -- end opinion --
-
- -Den
- --
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- Dennis Lippert - macman+@pitt.edu or macman@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
- The "Mac Maniac" operator at the Sutherland Hall Lab - Univ. of Pittsburgh
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