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From: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse problem
Keywords: mouse
Message-ID: <14608@gryphon.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 07:27:12 GMT
References: <0545.AA0545@caleb> <833@htsa.uucp>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs, Hermosa Beach, Ca.
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In article <833@htsa.uucp> beo@htsa.UUCP (beo) writes:
>Howdy,
> 
>Is the mouse problem a design problem ?
>
>I don't own a Amiga myself (yet) but a friend does. This friend has his A500
>for about a year and expierienced quite suddenly the loss of horizontal
>movement. Frustrated by a hardly usable Amiga  he wend to his dealer (You 
>try playing marble madness without horizontal movement). This dealer 
>told him that he wasn't the first one. After getting a new mouse we opened 
>the 'old' mouse but could not find a reason for malfunction.
>
>But to get to the point, the appearing fault almost has to be a design fault, 
>because everybody with a problem has the same (horizontal) problem, and
>a dealer told there were more mice with their feet up.
>
>Is there someone at Commodore who knows more or who can examine this ?
>
>P.S. this is an international problem too, because this is posted from 
>Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Those pretty black bands on the rollers that look like they're there to
assist traction are not. They are accumulated dirt. Clean off the crud and the
mouse will work as good as new. The rollers should all be nice and shiney and
all one color. That crud has remarkably poor traction against the ball.

-- 
Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit.
Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one.

{@_@}
	jdow@bix (where else?)		Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes
	jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM		the knight. Does the fair maiden ever
	{backbone}!gryphon!jdow		win? Surely both the knight and dragon
					stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide?
					Better yet - she should get an Amiga and
					quit playing with dragons and knights.