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The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it
When was the last time you cleaned it out?
Earlier this week it stopped going up and down, only side to side. Had to clean some crap off the x-axis wheel.
Good stuff, was imagining a 30 year old mouse with 30 year old crud! 🤮
Its 30 years old for sure, but its cleaned every other week or so!
Given how fast crud accumulates and how much it impacts use, I don't think that would be usable, and probably wouldn't have been for some years.
Me too. As a toolmaker and engineer, space mice were a thing. But they were stupidly expensive and still are. I was unwilling to spend the money for one. So I use a ball mouse and I still do for when I need to do serious CAD work these days-- designing my next model steam engine.
I have a 286 which connects through a COM (serial) port. Its mouse also has a ball since solid state lasers hadn't been invented
I'm very glad those mouses are maintainable and seem to last forever