Found this mouse today. Anyone ever seen one before?

I bet that was some sort of gift given to IBM employees. I've seen one for sale before.

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 02:37:

Found this mouse today. Anyone ever seen one before? […]
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Found this mouse today. Anyone ever seen one before?

Is it metallic? if so: which metal? is it really silver? or more like polished steel or something like that?

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 02:37:

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Found this mouse today. Anyone ever seen one before?

Haven't seen that particular one, but I have a gold Amiga mouse. (it is just mirror finish gold plastic I think)

Its definitely not plastic. Its a metal shell fitting on top of the mouse. Its pretty heavy too.

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 12:34:

Its definitely not plastic. Its a metal shell fitting on top of the mouse. Its pretty heavy too.

It is silver... What else would a silversmith use?

Not the most exciting purchase, but I just got a new old stock HP cd12 CD-RW.

I was using a Gateway-branded HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B that I'd pulled from a non-working computer my friend had sitting in their garage. I mainly bought this replacement specifically to get a slower read speed to get quieter operation when spinning up discs (the Gateway drive was very loud with a read speed of 42x I believe). While it is much quieter in operation, the tray mechanism is noisy and grindy, and I've not been able to remedy it with white lithium grease (I think it's just plastic-on-plastic sound of a cheaper-make drive rather than the gearing or the sound of imminent failure). Still, it's quieter when reading discs, so that's the important thing.

Oddly enough, the drive itself does not match the packaging, which isn't terrible since it matches my floppy emulator, but I was kind of looking forward to the drive having the packaging's beige 90s aesthetic.

Joakim wrote on 2021-08-19, 20:15:

A Fujitsu Myrica with what I beleive are original parts except for the fdd, cd, HDD and peripheral. […]
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A Fujitsu Myrica with what I beleive are original parts except for the fdd, cd, HDD and peripheral.

Msi6119 v1.1
P2 @400 MHz
ATI rage pro agp 2x
Aureal vortex

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interesting looking pc! a few components and it will be ready for some win98se action i'd imagine

teiresias wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:33:

Not the most exciting purchase, but I just got a new old stock HP cd12 CD-RW.

Cool, In the last while I've come across 3 burner boxes at thrifts, but none of them had the right drive in, they all had the drive that was taken out to install the burner.

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:44:

Cool, In the last while I've come across 3 burner boxes at thrifts, but none of them had the right drive in, they all had the drive that was taken out to install the burner.

Yeah, the drive is correct (because the packaging had never been opened), I guess it's just a later manufacturer run so it has a different front face plate from what I guess was the first-run drive on the box art.

Like you said though, my old drive is now in that box as the spare if I need it later.

The Asus A7M266 I ordered arrived in the mail today. The cpu cooler appears to have two different connections leading out of it and they were connected when I unwrapped the board. there seemed to be writing on the white one but it isn't readable. I need to now figure out what graphics card to put in. The only agp cards I have is the rage 128 pro and diamond media viper v550. I also have a geforce4 mx4000 pci card.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:07:

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 12:34:

Its definitely not plastic. Its a metal shell fitting on top of the mouse. Its pretty heavy too.

It is silver... What else would a silversmith use?

Gum and unicorn hoof

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:07:

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 12:34:

Its definitely not plastic. Its a metal shell fitting on top of the mouse. Its pretty heavy too.

It is silver... What else would a silversmith use?

Theres always a crank on these forums isnt there? Someone else asked if it was actually silver or metal and because I dont know for a fact, I cant say. Someone else mentioned it could be shiny plastic like his , but it definitely isnt.

I have never seen a mouse like this so any info from people who know anything about it would be great. Just because the box says silversmith , doesnt mean its not some cheap fake company. Though doing some googling All i can find id this company's silverware cutlery

retrogamerguy1997 wrote on 2021-08-20, 14:31:

The Asus A7M266 I ordered arrived in the mail today. The cpu cooler appears to have two different connections leading out of it […]
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The Asus A7M266 I ordered arrived in the mail today. The cpu cooler appears to have two different connections leading out of it and they were connected when I unwrapped the board. there seemed to be writing on the white one but it isn't readable. I need to now figure out what graphics card to put in. The only agp cards I have is the rage 128 pro and diamond media viper v550. I also have a geforce4 mx4000 pci card.

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The CPU fan might have been rewired originally so that it took power off a drive cable and just took the sensor line to the motherboard, or had additional power connector for same purpose. (Boards around at the time may only have had 300mA or 5oomA capable fan headers, so if you stuck something powerful on it, it could do damage) Also they fit both s370 and socket A so may have had two power connectors for intel board vs AMD board wiring. Those orbs are notorious core crushers though, so be careful when refitting.

Silver items are usually stamped.

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-20, 14:46:

retrogamerguy1997 wrote on 2021-08-20, 14:31:

The Asus A7M266 I ordered arrived in the mail today. The cpu cooler appears to have two different connections leading out of it […]
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The Asus A7M266 I ordered arrived in the mail today. The cpu cooler appears to have two different connections leading out of it and they were connected when I unwrapped the board. there seemed to be writing on the white one but it isn't readable. I need to now figure out what graphics card to put in. The only agp cards I have is the rage 128 pro and diamond media viper v550. I also have a geforce4 mx4000 pci card.

20210820_090903[1].jpg
20210820_091035[1].jpg
20210820_091049[1].jpg

The CPU fan might have been rewired originally so that it took power off a drive cable and just took the sensor line to the motherboard, or had additional power connector for same purpose. (Boards around at the time may only have had 300mA or 5oomA capable fan headers, so if you stuck something powerful on it, it could do damage) Also they fit both s370 and socket A so may have had two power connectors for intel board vs AMD board wiring. Those orbs are notorious core crushers though, so be careful when refitting.

yeah I don't have a clue about connecting this cooler to the board.

gerry wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:38:

Joakim wrote on 2021-08-19, 20:15:

A Fujitsu Myrica with what I beleive are original parts except for the fdd, cd, HDD and peripheral. […]
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A Fujitsu Myrica with what I beleive are original parts except for the fdd, cd, HDD and peripheral.

Msi6119 v1.1
P2 @400 MHz
ATI rage pro agp 2x
Aureal vortex

IMG_20210819_220506.jpg

interesting looking pc! a few components and it will be ready for some win98se action i'd imagine

I will benchmark it against my AMD k6-2+ rig @500 MHz, I think the P2 will win. I don't care too much about performance (but I want to be able to slow it down and I saw there were L1 and L2 options in the bios) Also, this is my first complete system and it feels very nice to have all cables etc and not have to use my temporary solutions and bad wiring haha.

The only thing is the dvd rom didn't work and the plastic shutter would stay shut. But I think I can fix this.

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 14:41:

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:07:

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 12:34:

Its definitely not plastic. Its a metal shell fitting on top of the mouse. Its pretty heavy too.

It is silver... What else would a silversmith use?

Theres always a crank on these forums isnt there? Someone else asked if it was actually silver or metal and because I dont know for a fact, I cant say. Someone else mentioned it could be shiny plastic like his , but it definitely isnt.

I have never seen a mouse like this so any info from people who know anything about it would be great. Just because the box says silversmith , doesnt mean its not some cheap fake company. Though doing some googling All i can find id this company's silverware cutlery

They come up on ebay uk quite regularly, they are silver plated ... I've seen them branded and non-branded... always that PS/2 Logitec mouse.

Here's one now... (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154554995758?hash= … -0AAOSw2Zde~upb).. obviously not my auction 😀. [EDIT: search "Wallace Mouse"... more than one on both ebay UK and US].

In your first photo, looking at the gap next to the mouse button, you can see the layer of plating on top of the regular beige plastic. Only plated, so probably not worth stamping with hallmarks.

I think this was (and still is) a popular past time for some Jewellers, although I think in this case this is/was an actual range for custom promo swag as I can see them for various other companies PMC, IBM and non-branded. I have a 24K USB drive somewhere for birthday a while ago customised by a goldsmith, only 2 gig so very dated now... case worth more than the chips probably these days... or not given current climate, so this still goes on.

spiroyster wrote on 2021-08-20, 15:08:

They come up on ebay uk quite regularly, they are silver plated ... I've seen them branded and non-branded... always that PS/2 L […]
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Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 14:41:

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-20, 13:07:

It is silver... What else would a silversmith use?

Theres always a crank on these forums isnt there? Someone else asked if it was actually silver or metal and because I dont know for a fact, I cant say. Someone else mentioned it could be shiny plastic like his , but it definitely isnt.

I have never seen a mouse like this so any info from people who know anything about it would be great. Just because the box says silversmith , doesnt mean its not some cheap fake company. Though doing some googling All i can find id this company's silverware cutlery

They come up on ebay uk quite regularly, they are silver plated ... I've seen them branded and non-branded... always that PS/2 Logitec mouse.

Here's one now... (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154554995758?hash= … -0AAOSw2Zde~upb).. obviously not my auction 😀. [EDIT: search "Wallace Mouse"... more than one on both ebay UK and US].

In your first photo, looking at the gap next to the mouse button, you can see the layer of plating on top of the regular beige plastic. Only plated, so probably not worth stamping with hallmarks.

I think this was (and still is) a popular past time for some Jewellers, although I think in this case this is/was an actual range for custom promo swag as I can see them for various other companies PMC, IBM and non-branded. I have a 24K USB drive somewhere for birthday a while ago customised by a goldsmith, only 2 gig so very dated now... case worth more than the chips probably these days... or not given current climate, so this still goes on.

Thanks, Thats neat, i wish I had that slipcover. Its a cool looking mouse that im going to keep and display. Thanks for the info.

Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 15:20:

spiroyster wrote on 2021-08-20, 15:08:

They come up on ebay uk quite regularly, they are silver plated ... I've seen them branded and non-branded... always that PS/2 L […]
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Law212 wrote on 2021-08-20, 14:41:

Theres always a crank on these forums isnt there? Someone else asked if it was actually silver or metal and because I dont know for a fact, I cant say. Someone else mentioned it could be shiny plastic like his , but it definitely isnt.

I have never seen a mouse like this so any info from people who know anything about it would be great. Just because the box says silversmith , doesnt mean its not some cheap fake company. Though doing some googling All i can find id this company's silverware cutlery

They come up on ebay uk quite regularly, they are silver plated ... I've seen them branded and non-branded... always that PS/2 Logitec mouse.

Here's one now... (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154554995758?hash= … -0AAOSw2Zde~upb).. obviously not my auction 😀. [EDIT: search "Wallace Mouse"... more than one on both ebay UK and US].

In your first photo, looking at the gap next to the mouse button, you can see the layer of plating on top of the regular beige plastic. Only plated, so probably not worth stamping with hallmarks.

I think this was (and still is) a popular past time for some Jewellers, although I think in this case this is/was an actual range for custom promo swag as I can see them for various other companies PMC, IBM and non-branded. I have a 24K USB drive somewhere for birthday a while ago customised by a goldsmith, only 2 gig so very dated now... case worth more than the chips probably these days... or not given current climate, so this still goes on.

Thanks, Thats neat, i wish I had that slipcover. Its a cool looking mouse that im going to keep and display. Thanks for the info.

Yeah it's a cool looking mouse. Good to see someone on Vogons get one in the flesh. Probably for display, I bet it's a fingerprint-magnet and if you're anything like me, my OCD wouldn't settle if I was using that mouse regularly... or I would get a mouse mat that could double up as a polishing cloth. 😀