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Vintage (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it

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[–] deepus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When was the last time you cleaned it out?

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[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Earlier this week it stopped going up and down, only side to side. Had to clean some crap off the x-axis wheel.

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[–] deepus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good stuff, was imagining a 30 year old mouse with 30 year old crud! 🤮

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[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Its 30 years old for sure, but its cleaned every other week or so!

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[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

Given how fast crud accumulates and how much it impacts use, I don't think that would be usable, and probably wouldn't have been for some years.

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Me too. As a toolmaker and engineer, space mice were a thing. But they were stupidly expensive and still are. I was unwilling to spend the money for one. So I use a ball mouse and I still do for when I need to do serious CAD work these days-- designing my next model steam engine.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago

I have a 286 which connects through a COM (serial) port. Its mouse also has a ball since solid state lasers hadn't been invented

I'm very glad those mouses are maintainable and seem to last forever

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