Not to mention scraping all the gunk off the rollers.
All the human slime is just between the buttons now and never gets cleaned
we always sprinkled paprika on ours.
Mine were so overcooked, they tasted like cooked rubber :(
It was always so satisfying to get it off in one single strip
I was working in a facility with about 400 desktops when we made the move to laser mice. I remember it fondly. Cleaning was worse than the theft, but both were obnoxious.
how about having to glue the bottom on hundreds of mice so school kids dont steal/throw them at each other.
core memory unlocked
also using hard drive magnet to discolour CRT screens
Were you the admins at my grade school? Because I may or may not have been responsible for that…
I remember being in 4-5th grade and learning about graphs. Specifically x & y coordinates. One day while cleaning the mouse ball before playing Joust or whatnot I noticed two little geared spindle thingy’s. I vividly remember it clicking that those gears were translating the physical mouses x&y to the screens cursor’s x&y.
You’re all liars because no one has mentioned the smell.
Use common sense! You think nerds changed their egg out on time?
I gave my technically illiterate father a led mouse for Christmas just as they became the normal, and it was like a miracle to him.
Overcooled egg is yum gum.