>>Noticed the wheel on the mouse was getting a little hard to move, so I popped open the mouse to clean it out. Yikes! Pulled out clump of gunk that was piled up around the wheel mechanism, then picked out the impacted stuff in the wheel itself using tweezers. End up with a rather sizable pile of gunk...
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>The gunk part did not surprise me - that was a common problem - in the * 80s! *
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>Where did you get a mouse with a roller ball? <g> You waiting to see if this Optical thing is a fad?
Hrm.. Rollerball... it's been a while I saw that movie (1975 version)...