Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari ST mouse: is there an alternative?
Message-ID: <2090@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 89 04:33:37 GMT
References: <733@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <2623@nunki.usc.edu>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2623@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal41.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung) writes:
>>     We have been having a certain problem, apparently well
>>known, with the mice.

>  Have you tried to clean your mouse? I use the following method:



I had a 1040 ST for about two years, and had no trouble to speak of with
any aspect of hardware.  In November, I traded up to a Mega ST2.  As
many of you know, I like to use Gulam and prefer using keystrokes to
using the mouse, so my mouse does not get a lot of wear. 

The day after I read the above messages, I was using the mouse and
noticed that the arrow liked to go to the right but not to the left.  I
did what I had done several times before with the mouse on the 1040,
clean the lint from the ball and the rollers.  I even took off the cover
and cleaned the rollers and disk from above. 

But this time the problem persists.  I have not mis-treated the cord,
which lies slack on my desktop, so I doubt broken wires in this case. 

Now, I am worried.  Any other suggestions?  Since this is a "one way"
problem, I suspect a diode in the motion detection circuit inside the
mouse.  Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated. 

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