Mouse balls

Skip Booth sb0026 at epfl2.epflbalto.org
Mon May 12 07:43:40 EDT 1997


Ellen Chamberlain wrote:
> 
> Thanks to all of you who answered my request for help on overriding a
> commercial vendor's home page default.  It worked!!!  Thank you, one
> and all!
> 
> Now, I've got another request.  Does anyone know where to purchase a
> mouse ball separately -- without having to buy an entire replacement
> mouse?  Ours can't be the only library frequented by "mouse ball
> thieves"; I've got two Microsoft Compatible "Mouses" 2.0A that are in
> perfectly good condition, if they only had balls!  (No jokes, now,
> this is serious); we have old "mouses" we can use, but they're not
> as attractive, and unfortunately, their balls are too big to fit into
> our streamlined "mouses."  Can anyone steer me to a supplier, or is
> my only alternative to purchase new "mouses?"
> 
>                   _____
>                 /     /)    Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian
>                /____ //)  University of South Carolina Beaufort
>               )_____)//)          email: ellenc at sc.edu
>               )_____)//            Library Home Page:
>               )_____)/    http://vm.sc.edu/~beaulib/libpage.html

-- 
We found a source at the local Montgomery Ward but they stopped carrying
Mouse Balls. At 4.00 each, it was almost as cheap to buy a bunch of Mice
and glue their little balls in. 
Skip Booth
Information System Support Manager
Anne Arundel County Public Library
5 Harry S Truman Parkway
Annapolis, MD 21401


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