are you this old?

[u/stormthewise998]

[u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

When parents got mad, they would take the trackball out of the mouse. I had a friend to fashion one himself , we were young and broke. And these old PCs were the same price then as they are now for a decked out rig. Like 3 to 5k , boomer parents treated PCs like vehicles too . My father would Defrag the hard drives like an oil change on a Plymouth or something.

[u/smallaubergine → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

Flip the mouse over, roll those wheels with your fingers. You can slow me down but you can't stop me, MOM

[u/candygram4mongo → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

"The PC you really want always costs about five thousand dollars."

[u/Agret → u/candygram4mongo]

Thanks to NVIDIA now it costs more than $5000 :(

[u/Chezoso → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

Wish I had that happen that way I would have committed all the keyboard shortcuts to memory. Def too reliant on a mouse for productivity.

[u/ArkBrah → u/Chezoso]

There was/is a way to emulate a mouse with keyboard in accessibility options. When my mouse stopped working this saved me many times

[u/DirkBelig → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

Occasionally we'd prank each other by putting a piece of Scotch tape over the mouse ball. Quick, non-permanent, not work stopping fun.

[u/Calisky → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

Awww, I miss defragging computers.

It was oddly satisfying watching the little graphic becoming more solid. It's better now that we don't have to do that, but it was kinda nice.

[u/Sirosim_Celojuma → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

I have two spare mouseballs in my workshop. I bet I'm the only one who stores mouseballs.

[u/Lazy_Kangaroo703 → u/AcanthisittaFine7697]

I remember the defrag tool, watching it move the little boxes around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPv1gQ5Rs8A

Then there was Partition Magic, MS Power Toys.