[PLUG] Re: OT (Hardware): Do pointy devices wear out?

Brian Beattie beattie at beattie-home.net
Mon Feb 9 16:15:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:49, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > Unless you're me and have chronically oily hands, and therefore the
> > trackball is constantly accumulating junk to run off on the support
> > posts. (Optical)
> 
> OK, so I'll go ahead and chime in here.
> 
> I have a top-mounted track-ball (as opposed to the thumb-type) and it's
> alright.  I'd really like a decent top-mounted trackball with three
> buttons, but they're pretty hard to find (except the >$100 variety, which
> I cannot abide).
CompUSA has a house brand with a clearcase about $30 I have about 6 at
home one for every computer.
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