Stupid computer question

[Camino LS6]

Can you buy a replacement rubber ball for a mouse?

[Intrepidation]

What is this rubber ball you speak of? My mice have no balls.

[Camino LS6]

What is this rubber ball you speak of? My mice have no balls.

Haha!

Well my mouse only has one - and it's shrinking!

[Intrepidation]

That sounds like a personal problem!

Anyway, I'm not sure you can go and buy one per say, but mice balls are universal ins ize for teh most part. So with a little snipping and unscrewing from a willing donor, your mouse will have bigger balls!

Otherwise, get an optical or laser mouse and never look back!

[Camino LS6]

Tanks!

[Oracle of Delphi]

Do you have a mouse pad too ??? :rotflmao:

[Camino LS6]

:rotflmao:

Holy gender confusion, Batman!

[Intrepidation]

You know PETA is going to get on your ass for doing crazy, cross gender mouse experiments.

[pow]

If you do buy a new mouse, make sure your computer has a USB port - because that's all they connect to these days.

[Oracle of Delphi]

How many USB ports you have Camino ???

[Camino LS6]

Wow!

I really am on C&G!

[pow]

Wow!

I really am on C&G!

In all seriousness, I found an old computer in the attic and couldn't attach any mouse to it - the ports were the giant, screw-in kind. I never knew.

And the computer really didn't seem that old... made in the 2000s, I think?

Edited April 17, 2009 by empowah

[Camino LS6]

In all seriousness, I found an old computer in the attic and couldn't attach any mouse to it - the ports were the giant, screw-in kind. I never knew.

And the computer really didn't seem that old... made in the 2000s, I think?

Thanks for the heads up.

[Intrepidation]

They have USB-to-Serial and USB-to-PS/2 adapters for ancient relics like that.

[FAPTurbo]

They have USB-to-Serial and USB-to-PS/2 adapters for ancient relics like that.

But then, it'd probably be cheaper just to get an optical mouse.

[Robert Hall]

The thing that always annoyed me about mouse balls were how the rollers around the ball would get gunked up and make movements awkward. This thread reminds me of a faux-PSA I saw on an episode of Reno 911! about keeping your mouse balls clean.

Edited April 17, 2009 by moltar

[Robert Hall]

In all seriousness, I found an old computer in the attic and couldn't attach any mouse to it - the ports were the giant, screw-in kind. I never knew.

And the computer really didn't seem that old... made in the 2000s, I think?

Interesting..I think even my 15 yr old Packard Bell PC had the PS/2 style mouse port (i.e. the green or purple round plug in).

[Satty]

Wouldn't a new mouse be like $8? I cant imagine you'll find a replacement ball for much less than that. Now if you could find a public computer that still used balled mice, that would be a different story.

[Camino LS6]

I've got it working again already, so I'll wait until it craps out entirely before I do anything about it.

[2005 EquinoxLS]

Once you get an optical mouse you wont want to ever go back to a ball mouse.