Welp! The old mouse I bought in 2005 finally gave up the ghost. LYNX L8A printed on the mfr tag. It came with a Great Quality computer that went for parts years ago. Mousie just quit responding - connection and wheel all fine. Butt before I toss it out, I'll take it apart and see if there's an open circuit. If I can fix it I'll keep using it. It has the smoothest wheel of any and never a hiccup of any kind.
It's kinduh like grandfathers clock. So if dead as a hammer, we'll awl gather round and have a garbage can-side ceremony, make speeches, ex cetry.
Sniff, sniff, HONK! ====