[Info-vax] Pre-Ball Hockey-Puck mouse parts

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <l2ia2g$m5$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
	Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
> On 10/2/2013 11:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <00ADA2DA.2D46A1CE at sendspamhere.org>,
>> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>> In article <l2fsu0$mg2$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
>>>> My mouse fell off the desk again only this time one of the little
>>>> (pre-ball) contact pads/grommets came off. When I tried to push it
>>>> back on it revealed how old and perished it was by breaking in two
>>>> :-(
>>>>
>>>> Anyone had experience of replacing these with something readily
>>>> available? HP still stock parts :-)
>>>
>>> I may have a few of these.  Give me a couple of days to look through the
>>> stores.
>>>
>>> I'm still looking for the mouse that was squared off with 15 pin D-plug
>>> connector.  It's for a retro-computer exhibit of a MicroVAX-II with the
>>> VCB01 graphics card.
>>>
>>
>> Seriously???  I think I still have one of them at home.  I will look
>> tonite if I get a chance.
> 
> Thanks Brian and Bill. Yes, seriously. Not the end of the world if I 
> can't fix it obviously but I'd perfer to keep the thing going if I can.

Oh damn.  Yet another confussion due to the lack of visual cues in the
medium.

I was addressing Brian.  I have one of those mice he was looking for
somewhere in the house but things are rather jumbled as I am packing
a lot of stuff up to get rid of it.  I couldn't find it last night
but will keep looking.  And, I wondered if he night have a use for
the H3060.

On another note, I did find a hockey-puck mouse with one of the little
wheels missing.  I don't know how easy or hard it is to work on these
but if I could send you the parts would it help?  I would like to keep
the electronics for another project, (I am trying to reverse-engineer
these mice) but you are welcome to the mechanical stuff.  Maybe I
could pull the bottom off and send it to you and you can try to get
the remaining wheel off.  Let me know and give me a USPS address if
your interested.  I will look into what it takes to take it apart tonite.

> 
> I just put one of my huge CRTs out on the verge and with, another move 
> coming up, my wife's asking questions about what's all this stuff and 
> can be get rid of it.

My wife has never complained about all my stuff, but then we livin a
house with four floors and ~10000 sqft of space.  Of course, now that
there is just the two of us and we are both at retirement age we are
looking to move into something much smaller (and I would prefer warmer,
too) so the collection is being disbursed.

bill

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