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Jackdaw33 | 21:45 Sat 18th Jun 2016 | Computers
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To cut a long story short, earlier this year I stood on my mouse, which I bought for 99p 6 years ago and stood me in good stead. Needless to say it was Donald and I had to resort to the touchpad, which I hated. Anyway on Thursday I decided to invest in a wireless mouse. It has taken me two days to get it operative. Firstly, I was not told that it needed batteries (not supplied). After three hours I finally managed to wrench the wretched thing out of the stiff plastic wrapping. What few instructions there were said I needed an AA battery. That was a no-no as even I could see that the hole wan't big enough. On closer inspection I realised that it needed two AAA batteries, which I purchased this afternoon. Having managed to insert them with some difficulty, hallelujah, it works... or not. It has an on/off switch underneath and also a mind of its own. I switch it on, and if I don't touch it for about 10 minutes it switches itself off. Pity you can't get computers anymore which run off the gas!
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It goes to sleep after 10 mins to conserve energy, lazy mouse, try feeding it a bit more.
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I'll try feeding it to the cat!
I bought a wireless mouse as I thought that it was the way forward. I knew that cats chased mice but not that they enjoyed swatting the thing with the red light off the desk. I gave up.

I have a mouse with a lead on my laptop and I have disabled the touchpad because Princess Merlin enjoyed stomping that far too much.


I probably spend 11 hours a day on a laptop but i couldn't use a touchpad to save my life. I use remote mice - they don't live long :-(
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I just can't believe the hassle I've had to get the damned thing working!
I rather like the pen holder my laptop has. You push a little button on the side and a tray pops out a bit, perfect! If you pull the tray a bit further it doubles as a coffee cup holder, great bit of engineering.
Mine has a handy slot where I can keep change for parking or a pound for a supermarket trolley. Very thoughtful.
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I thought mine had a coffee cup holder. Turns out it's a CD drive.
I'm still struggling with the idea that, in order to turn a computer OFF, you have to click a button labelled START !
I still try to park the hard drive before I turn it off
And don't mention the time I bought a pair of kitchen scissors and had to take them back because the packaging had to be cut open with scissors.
That would have annoyed me no end Hc, they should have been supplied with a small pair for opening purposes.
My first computer didn't have a hard drive, Hc! (Atari ST).

Before that, I'd had to learn to program computers without a computer! (I had to encode programs onto punch cards, which were then posted to the polytechnic so that, about a week later, I could get a letter telling me that the program couldn't be run as I'd made a typing error!)
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Been there hc, T-shirt and all.
I started with an Atari ST, thought it was great. Played lots of Pac Man.
I spent about £200 on my Atari ST and accessories (such as a joystick, which I never used) in Selfridges.

However, apart from games, there was very little ready-built software for it, so I had to fork out another £250 for a DTP program (Pagestream). It came on about a dozen floppies. Interestingly though, there was very little it couldn't do that Quark Xpress can currently do (and which requires a minimum of 2Gb disc space!)
I share your pain
Have a new Acer PC
Windows 10
Was happily working on Windows 7 before
Complete nightmare, feel so inadequate
Used to enjoy playing Scrabble via Facebook, now takes a hit and miss to get to the site
Not a mind reader (if computers can be said to have one)

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