I thought changing the decrepit and malfunctioning mouse on the 90 meg Pentium machine would be a snap. Even picked up a nice little scroll mouse for five bucks from Superstore! Wait a minute, what's this funny little plug on the end. Oh, it's a PS/2 mouse, silly me. Well I'll just trot down to Compusmart and for another five bucks pick up a PS/2 to 9 pin din serial adapter. That should work. Ah,... dummy, you have to have a PS/2 port to run a PS/2 mouse. So it's back to the old mouse with it's finicky buttons and sticky scroll ball. I'll have to look around the second hand stores for an old serial mouse. In the meantime, it's back to Superstore and Compusmart for refunds. Best $10 I never spent.

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