Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pcserver2!ddsw1!veck From: veck@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Steven King, aka Chelloveck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Optical MOUSE...How do you like it? Message-ID: <1991Mar23.010837.138@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 23 Mar 91 01:08:37 GMT References: <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <18d64cd1.ARN1359@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Wheeling, IL Lines: 17 In article <17557@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, Richard Blewitt writes: > On optical > mice, there are fuzzy pads that help them slide across the smooth > pad. These pads will gum up with the same gunk that screws up the > mechanical ones, except that these pads are impossible to fully > clean, and I have never seen replacements for these pads. On the Mouse Systems optical rodent I use on the Sun at work (same mouse as the Boing mouse) I've found an ordinary pencil eraser cleans the pads quite nicely. About once every other month I gently scrub my mouse's fuzzy little feet, and I've never had any problems. -- -----------------------------------------------------+------------------------ So Bill, tell us about holographic food. | Steven King | Software Archaeologist | veck@ddsw1.MCS.COM