Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls 🖱️
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now hands up if you had to overboil the egg yolks in the school science labs so you could replace all the mouse balls in the computer room
The computer room (library) computers didn't have mice. They were Apple IIe machines.
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The computer room (library) computers didn't have mice. They were Apple IIe machines.
@pussreboots @jamesrg @FlockOfCats My high school (semi-rural PA, 1981-1983) was not cool enough to have Apple IIs. If I remember correctly, we had some variation of the Radio Shack TRS-80. No mouse, of course.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
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I have a whole bag full of old mouse balls. A place I used to work threw out a lot of old mice and I collected the balls, thinking they could be useful for something in the future.Heavy, smooth, rubber coated, with a uniform size. Some day I will figure out what to do
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@pussreboots @jamesrg @FlockOfCats My high school (semi-rural PA, 1981-1983) was not cool enough to have Apple IIs. If I remember correctly, we had some variation of the Radio Shack TRS-80. No mouse, of course.
@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @FlockOfCats
okay our school had no computer room but there was an RM Nimbus in every classroom, save for the Reception years, which all shared one BBC Micro
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats and also know there there was more than one size.
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@FlockOfCats For me, this was as satisfying as defragmenting a hard disk.
@RachelThornSub @FlockOfCats I remember defragging. Very peaceful.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️I was in the meeting when the head sysadmin for a large university dumped a box of mouse balls onto a conference room table.
"You turned down my request for optical mice.
You want to know why trouble tickets take so long and I can't get projects finished?
Here's why. Two hundred mouse balls replaced this quarter, thousands cleaned and serviced.
Every time one of my staff touches a mouse with a ball, it costs twice what a modern ball-less mouse would cost.
Every time you cut my capex, you pay twice that in opex."A truly epic scene.
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@crouton @FlockOfCats
My original plan was a self-aiming autoloading desktop trebuchet. But they're a bit too heavy to throw at people I basically like. -
lol this is such a boomer post, like “boost if you used to drink from the garden hose!!” But I do amuse myself greatly by making fun of our advancing age
@FlockOfCats why you have to trash my hose water drinking X gen childhood?
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@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @FlockOfCats
okay our school had no computer room but there was an RM Nimbus in every classroom, save for the Reception years, which all shared one BBC Micro
@jamesrg @pussreboots @FlockOfCats I had to look up both of those. You're from the UK, no? Interesting that it would be so different from the U.S. in the same period. Things were more wide open back then. It didn't take long for one or two global corporations to drive the rest out of business.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats Ugh, and that stupid fiber-like formation of hairs and gunk that would form on the rollers was so hard to get off even with a q-tip... Actually, it was, more than anything else, the biggest culprit in reducing mouse accuracy. I never actually had to do any of the rest there, just get that off the rollers.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats I still do and you can too!
I use a trackball lol
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@FlockOfCats why you have to trash my hose water drinking X gen childhood?
@mangotable @FlockOfCats yeah the hose thing is definitely Gen-X I think.
our boomer friends drank directly from the leaded petrol nozzle didn't they
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats man, I remember growing up we used to have a mouse that actually had a ball still, until it finally got replaced with a laser one.
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Mastodon/Fedi: The social network for people who have actually cleaned mouse balls
️@FlockOfCats thanks for making me remember that
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@jamesrg @pussreboots @FlockOfCats I had to look up both of those. You're from the UK, no? Interesting that it would be so different from the U.S. in the same period. Things were more wide open back then. It didn't take long for one or two global corporations to drive the rest out of business.
@RachelThornSub @pussreboots @FlockOfCats
i think the attitude of those early UK companies still lives on in the Raspberry Pi initiative
