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

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In article <bb55v6F8qblU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>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.

I was confused too.

Yes, I'd love the H3060 too.


>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.

Itemize what you want to part with! ;)

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