Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!cornell!johnhlee From: johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: That Middle Button (Boing! mouse) Message-ID: <49488@cornell.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 90 00:44:58 GMT References: <7896.275d92fe@jetson.uh.edu> <1990Dec7.183129.16746@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 31 Summary: Followup-To: In article faheyr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Fahey ) writes: [...] >side of the mouse. I also would clean the mousepad itself. Here's how I >do it (I wont say it's the best way, cuz as far as I know, it messes up >the pad. But, I haven't had any problems with it for the entire 1.5yrs I >have had it). Just wipe it off w/ windex or water if you want to be real >safe.... :) > >If you do these things, the mouse will _fly_. The infamous Mouse Systems M3/M4 mouse... I have a converted Sun M3 optical mouse (the same as the Boing! mouse, I believe.) I keep my mousepad religiously clean by thoroughly wiping it off with Windex/glass cleaner *every time* before I use my Amiga. After two years it is still as smooth as glass. The felt pads still look nice and clean, although occasionally I have to scrap a little gunk off the felt pads. That gunk, by the way, is dust, dirt, oil, and flaked skin. If you don't keep the pad clean, the mouse gets rather "grippy," as illustrated vividly by the mice attached to the workstations used by undergrads... Don't worry about the Windex hurting the mouse pad. (Water won't do the job--the universal solvent isn't universal enough) At work, we use even stronger stuff, an industrial foam cleaner with a lots of ammonia. The inked lines won't come off unless you scrap them off. By the way, does anyone know where to buy replacement mouse pads? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mice and time fly! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.