Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!cs18.cs.aukuni.ac.nz!rob From: rob@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Rob Burrowes ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Classic Mice microswitches Keywords: Classic Mice microswitches Message-ID: <1991Jun26.035701.16491@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> Date: 26 Jun 91 03:57:01 GMT References: <1991Jun25.000846.27039@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland Lines: 24 In steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: > Just quietly, I have replaced inxs of 20 mice in the last months... >this is an abnormal failure rate... but anyway, i might make a lampshade out of >the dead ones..... I am expecting far more failures, i have stocked up with >about 20 new service stock mice.. it seems to only happen with the plastic >ball models. >steve We have had a similar failure rate. Hence the original question. So far the only replies I have had have been requests from people to tell them where they can get the switches when I find out. Our local Apple Distributor says this is a known problem and they can't import replacement mice fast enough. A mouse mobile would be nice, but they insist on having the dead mice returned so they can throw them away instead of us. -- Rob Burrowes rob@cs.aukuni.ac.nz. System Admin Computer Science Dept., Auckland University, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand