[Leaplist] mouse

[Jason Boxman]

On Saturday 20 March 2010 02:52:02 pm Jim Hartley wrote:
> 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.

All my mice are optical these days.  Way overpaid like $35 for an optical in 
like '99.  Actually it's right next to me.  For desktops I always use one of 
the 'converters' to PS2.

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