Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!endor!singer From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mouse cleaners Message-ID: <4974@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 17 Jul 88 19:02:56 GMT References:Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA Lines: 29 In article ll12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laura Ann Lemay) writes: > >I need a good heavy-duty machine that will clean the muck off the little >rollers inside an ADB or ordinary mouse. > > >Alcolhol and diligence will not do it, we're talking massive amounts of dirt >and sticky things here. Picking it off works, but the problem is I'm asking >this on behalf of Carnegie Mellon Academic Computing which owns upwards of 90 >SEs and plusses, none of whose mice have ever been cleaned (sigh). We figure >a machine that can do it will be well worth the investment. > >-Laura Lemay >CMU Academic Computing Mac Person Having once worked for CMU Academic Computing, I appreciate the magnitude of the problem; I use the Ergotron Mouse Cleaner 360 (look in the computer store); it's the finest mouse cleaner I've seen. A side bous is that it can also be used to clean the mice attached to the IBM RT's in the various Andrew workstation clusters. --Rich Rich Siegel Symantec/THINK Technologies (Former CMU Student and CMU/AC employee)