[Leaplist] mouse

[Jim Hartley]

If you don't really need it, why pay for wireless? You can get a wired 
USB mouse at Office depot for $10-12.

I had to buy a mouse last week, my old one, one of the last of the 
"rubber ball" ones, had the rollers so grunked up I couldn't get them 
clean ... ALL the new ones are optical. Unfortunately ALMOST ALL of the 
new ones are USB, and I didn't want to have to reconfigure, I just 
wanted to plug in a replacement and have the computer not notice (yeah, 
I was being lazy, but it worked).

You'd think they'd figure out that a lot of old PS/2 mice are dying and 
stock more replacements, but no, the damn stores only want to carry the 
latest and greatest. The idiot salesman told me they had NO PS/2 mice, 
I'd have to try to find it on-line. He was wrong, there were a couple 
with adapters, but I'm ashamed to admit what brand I had to buy to get 
that. With the adapter so it could advertise "USB/PS2" on the box it was 
about $21.

Jim Hartley


Tom Foster wrote:
> howdy guys,
> 
> Where can I get a good but relatively inexpensive small wireless
> mouse?  I just saw one yesterday that tempted me,with a little
> stubby usb thing, but it cost 40 bucks.  Since I don't really need a
> mouse, that's too much to pay.  Any suggestions?
> 

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