Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!ingemar From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Mice and men Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 09:58:48 GMT Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping Lines: 25 A few years back, all the Mac mice were made in USA. They had large, heavy mouse balls. I find these mice to work rather well. Of course, you have to clean the wheels (not only the ball) from time to time. Then it seems like Apple as well as IBM switched to foreign mice, Taiwanese ones I think. They were much lighter and had these small black balls. (I am sure you remember the amusing text about mouse balls, said to be a text from some IBM manual.) I wasn't too happy about them, mostly since I am used to the heavier ones, I guess, but they also seem more sensitive to dirt on the wheels. When the new Macs arrived in October, I thought they would have the same (bad) light mice. However, all the Macs I've seen from the student's computer dealer (one LC and one Classic, so far) have heavy mice - made in Taiwan! The Macs from another dealer all have light mice. So, my question is: is Apple switching back to heavy mice, or are they mixing types for some other reason? (My dealer didn't know. They hadn't even heard of new heavy mice.) -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se