I had to steal my logitec mouse from the main rig the other day as I needed to use it on the laptop that doesnt have a ps2 port, I couldnt find another optical mouse to replace it so have put a ball mouse that I found in the attic in, it is brand new and is absoloutly crap how did we ever put up with these things.

I need to get myself a spare optical mouse.

I remember the day they bought out those little plastic 'golf ball on a stick' looking things that you stick in the mouse and twizzle to clear out the gunk.

Oh, how my world changed!

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on September 08, 2011, 20:47:41 PM
I remember the day they bought out those little plastic 'golf ball on a stick' looking things that you stick in the mouse and twizzle to clear out the gunk.

Oh, how my world changed!

flash git, I used to scrape them out with a kinfe/screwdriver

I didn't even pay for mine, it came free with something 

aka.......              shoplifter !

I think I spent more time cleaning the rollers of crap then actually using the mouse.

I just used it with dirt until it wouldn't work then bought another, thats how i roll! 

There was a world of difference between the cheap nasty computer fair ones, and the Microsoft Intellimouse series.
Kidney shaped FTW!

I remember walking into the computer room at secondary school (yes, my school of 700 pupils had an entire ROOM full of computers, 30 of them! we were so advanced!!), sitting down at a PC and spending 5 minutes cleaning the mouse before I could start work. They also had horrible cheap monitors which ran at 60Hz, not too bad if you're looking straight at it but the ones to left and right used to give me a headache.

The funniest thing I ever saw in that room was the day they decided "The Internet" was The Future(tm) and we should learn how to use it. Since the school PCs weren't networked never mind online, we were each provided with a floppy disk marked "The Internet", containing about 5 HTML files linked together with hyperlinks. To be fair, someone had probably spent some time setting this lesson up with considerably sub-optimal resources. What made me laugh out loud was that two of my less intelligent classmates were so taken in by it that they spent the entire lesson trying to figure out how to look up porn on "The Internet"

Saying that, you've just reminded me of how people used to steal the balls from mice back at school. What were they doing with them?

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on September 09, 2011, 09:00:17 AM
Saying that, you've just reminded me of how people used to steal the balls from mice back at school. What were they doing with them?

These days they just smash the whole PC up.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on September 09, 2011, 09:00:17 AM
Saying that, you've just reminded me of how people used to steal the balls from mice back at school. What were they doing with them?

There's something extremely pleasing about a mouse ball; the weight, the rubbery shell. A friend of mine stole them just to throw at pin boards and leave perfectly round dents ...