[WEB4LIB] RE: of mouse balls and such

[Drew, Bill]

A friend of mine (and she shall remain anonymous to protect the guilty) told
me the following story once about one of her first experiences with a mouse
on a computer.  This was when personal computers first showed up in the
large department stores as items available for purchase.  She was with her
teenage daughter and they walked over to a computer that was running a demo
of Windows.  The instructions on the screen said "Place mouse here and
click."  My friend picked up the mouse and placed it on the screen and
pushed the buttons with no results.  While this was happening her daughter
tried to disappear into the wood work.  She and her husband now laugh at the
story.
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Wilfred (Bill) Drew
Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
SUNY Morrisville College Library
drewwe at morrisville.edu 
Home: http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe 
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