Apple mouse. Circa 2009. Maybe later. It sorta still works. That is you can navigate around with the mouse in the circular way, but if you try to use the up / down scroll button, it only goes in one direction (uP). No downward dog for this puppy.
It’s also not wireless, one more point towards its obsolete status.
Found out the first Apple mouse was called Lisa. I wonder if the Simpsons knew that?
It was model A9M0050. A brief search finds the current “magic” mouse as model number A1296 3Vdc. I wonder how that works. Are there ~1200 models in between? The Lisa mouse is from 1983. This one I quoted is from January 2013. 30 years. That’s 3 models per month per year. Seems way too high. But who knows, maybe it’s even higher. Is there a grad student somewhere working on these stats? I’d love to know.
Day 277 covers a titch more history of mice, and for Apple mouse enthusiasts, here is a nice site with lovely photos.
Status: Open up and salvage for spare parts for a companion to the sea monster. She needs an imaginary friend.
Kill-ratio: 18:2 / 9:1
Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 357 For Slowly Scrolling Up In Time.
p.s. This was scheduled to post last night, but it didn’t. Drats, my catch up plans are foiled again!
I’ve been admiring your mouse image up on top. Really good “product shot”.
Thanks John.
the up and down problem can easily be solved… take a clean sheet of paper, press and roll the mouse ball on it several times around and voilá… it’s functioning again 🙂
Thanks Inge, I’ll try that. Although I am keen to open it up:)
haha, you’re just like me… since i was little i was always curious to see how things worked.
getting tmepted to open my white mouse now, as i always use the trackpad and my mouse is just lying here unplugged 🙂
Yes, just today I took the broken DVD player to the recycling depot and half-regretted not opening it up first:)