Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.edu.au!manuel!ccadfa!prolix!dac From: dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: The Amiga Mouse Message-ID: <1867ca57.ARN00574@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> Date: 22 Dec 90 15:33:11 GMT References: <7239@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <7344@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!Uprolix!Dac Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Organization: I'm not an Organization - I'm a person! Lines: 44 In article <7344@sugar.hackercorp.com>, Peter da Silva writes: > So, that's 3 mice out of 3 where that stupid little rubber dome switch has > gone early in the life cycle. It's beginning to look like a design flaw. Why don't you splash out on an optical mouse? I purchased a Boing! Mouse ($A186 ~$US150) over a year ago, and it has performed wonderfully. Not having to clean it is a major plus. It's sometimes not _quite_ as accurate as a mechanical mouse, but the reliability of the switches, and the nice feel to it, makes this mouse a wonderful replacement for the C= version. BTW, I had one of the original A1000 mice, which was great, nice and solid, but used to need cleaning (even with Mousepad) at least once a month. One day I thought I'd give it a really GOOD cleaning, and noticed that the rollers came out. I pulled them out, cleaned them with meths, and found that getting them back in was slightly more difficult. So difficult in fact, that I BROKE one of the lugs that held the roller down. Damnation! I used a bit of matchstick and blu-tack to keep the roller in place (which was fine really), and went looking for a replacement mouse. I tried a Mighty Mouse, which was a $A79 mistake. It used COPPER plated contact driven tech, instead of optical rollers. When the SECOND one of those broke (first one replaced under warrenty), I forked over the $A186 for the Boing!, and haven't looked back. When I purchased my A2500/20 (on special), I got one of the new Commodore mouses. It was lightwheight and horrid. I gave it away with the Mighty Mouse to the purchaser of my A1000. (I kept the semi-broken A1000 mouse so that I can play two player Shanghai!) > Sigh... I hope the warranty covers this. As for C= mouse supplies... They're pretty bad. > Peter da Silva. `-_-' Dac _l _ _ Andrew Clayton. I post . ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!Uprolix!dac (_](_l(_ Canberra. Australia. . . I am. Note: I cannot send or recieve MAIL to sites outside of Australia. Sorry.