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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: one blind mouse
Message-ID: <245@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 5 Nov 88 01:35:30 GMT
References: <870259@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <30247@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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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?

My mouse once lost its horizontal axis, I had my Mac Plus at work.
There was another Mac there, so I did a swap.  It was not the mouse
but the Mac.

I wiggled things, rebooted it, power cycled it, etc.  No go.

At this point I was sad.  My mac was disabled (this was before Easy
Access).  I had work to do that needed my Mac.  Not having anything
better to do, and being a True Engineer, I decided to take apart my
computer.  Dug around for enough tools to kludge a long torx screw
driver and went at it.  

I was fun.  Once inside I had fun identifying bunches of different
components, but didn't see any `User Servicable Parts' in there.  (I
stayed clear of all the high voltage CRT stuff.)  Sadly, I put it back
together wondering where take it for a several hundred dollar swap of
the logic board.

Once it was together, still not having anything better to do, I
turned it on again to restart the cycle...

IT WORKED!!!

That was coming up on 2 years ago and the mouse has never failed me
since, my screen jitters sometimes, sometimes I hear a ticking sound
coming from inside the computer, but it works.

I still don't know what happened.

Sorry to have no solution, but I hope you do have a happy ending...

Kent Borg
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