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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: How to Disassemble a MS Mouse?
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.0apv@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 08:49:01 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Thu 5 Nov 92 4:08, Colfelt@ucsu.colorado.edu (andrew B
- wrote:
-
- CB> Oh, and don't get really really mad at the thing and
- CB> slam it on the mousepad. The inertia of the ball inside
- CB> is enough to break the tang that secures that little door.
-
- One local vendor who supplies the local university with mice for their
- computer labs now strongly suggests buying cheap mice for such
- environments. Seems students routinely get frustrated when mouse motion
- isn't smooth (likely caused by crumbs and what not on the mouse pads) and
- slam the mice down.
-
- From the vendor's experience, an expensive MS mouse doesn't last any longer
- than the cheap ones with this kind of abuse. (i.e., pick up dirt on the
- ball, and subsequently smacked against the pad).
-
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- located on Lake Superior and home to America's newest National Park,
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