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From: ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: one blind mouse
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Date: 3 Nov 88 13:57:20 GMT
References: <870259@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
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In article <870259@hpcilzb.HP.COM> cnc@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Chris Christensen) writes:

>My mouse for my Mac Plus last night decided that it was no longer
>interested in the vertical direction. After further examination, it
>seems that mechanically it is still working, but the electrical
>motion sensor is now defunct. Has anyoine had this happen. Any idea
>what it will cost to fix or replace a mouse?

I haven't had this happen myself, but I read about these symptoms here
in comp.sys.mac (or was it net.micro.mac?) some time ago.  The poster
of that long-ago article figured out that the mouse per se was fine,
but one of the wires had broken in the cable due to inadequate strain
relief.  Guessing that the wire had broken where it was most strained
(i.e., at its junction with the mouse body), he unsoldered the wires
from inside the mouse, clipped an inch or so off each, and resoldered
them.  His mouse was revived.


Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214

     On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
     into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"