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From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Re: New Apple Ergo-Mouse
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 18:47:33 GMT
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In article <C52EqG.6H2@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
>nwcs@utkvx.utk.edu (Schizophrenia means never being alone) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know how to open up the Apple Ergo-Mouse (ADB Mouse II)?
>>Mine lives near a cat (true, really...) and picks up her fur.  From what
>>I can tell, it looks like Apple welded it shut.
>
>    You must not have tried very hard. I just opend mine in about 2
>seconds. Take a look on the bottom, it has a dial that turns to open
>much like the older ADB mouses used to have. It's a bit harder to turn
>at first but it is quite simple to open.
>

Nope.  I'm pretty sure that this person knows how to take the ball out.
I think that what they want to do is take the mouse apart.  The old mouse
had four screws on the bottom that you could unscrew to do this,
while there's no obvious way to take the new one apart.


--Tony
quan@cs.stanford.edu

