pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras) (09/04/90)
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:(Eric Feigenson) writes:
:> I'm having a peculiar problem on my Mac IIcx. All of a sudden, when I
:> move my mouse, the cursor tends to jump around on the screen. It
:> doesn't jump very far, but it does sometimes jump towards the top of
:> the screen when I move the mouse so that the cursor should be moving
:> to the *bottom* of the screen. I first suspected a virus, and I have
: ...
:> problem. I'm fairly certain that it's not a virus, and that leaves a
:> "hardware problem". Has anyone else encountered this problem before?
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:I have had much the saem problem, and I took the mouse off, opened it up and
:cleaned it from head to tail (pun intended). When my mouse did what you
:describe, I merely cleaned the litttle rollers where the ball was, and that
:h mb very little effect on it. When I opened the whole case, I found
:that somehow I had small threads of stuff, like fibers, or lint wrapped
around
:the little roller bars! I took a twizer and cleaned it all out, washed the
:ball with a cleaning solution (they get dirty too!) used for VHS tapes, and
:did the same for the rollers. I so cleaned it with a damp cloth from head to
:tail (pun again) and made sure the connections on both the cord and my mac
:were also clean.
:
:The result is that I have not had a single problem (probably speaking too
:soon!) with it since then. And that was about 4 months ago....
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:Dave
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INET: pip@pro-freedom.cts.comjm13@quads.uchicago.edu (Kermit T. Frog) (06/03/91)
I have been having problems with sticky mice, and have traded in the mouse which came with my IIci three times already. (I purchased the IIci last September) Because I have been having a lot of problems, I have been exploring alternatives. The two alternatives available to me seem to be the Kensington TurboMouse ($114 at a local dealer is the best non-mailorder price I can find) and an optical mouse w/pad for $75. I would like to conduct a survey of the Mac users out there to see what you folks prefer and why. Please respond via e-mail if possible if you are reading mac.misc, as I do not read it often. People in mac.games can post or e-mail. I will post a summary of my responses to either group if there is interest. Thanks in advance -- I hope to get many responses. Jonathan (jm13@quads.uchicago.edu) -- Paid for by the Committee to elect the Boston Bruins as the 1992 Stanley Cup Champions.