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Re: Vendor-supplied mouse replacement timewarp.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Thu Feb 10 17:15:32 2000
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:11:04 -0500
To: tb@mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, BSG), kcr@mit.edu (K. Ramm)
From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>, Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, owls@mit.edu,
release-team@mit.edu, khiggins@mit.edu
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Thomas + Garry,
It's fine to spend the $ for Logitech. Perhaps NECX can do their fast order.
Thanks, Bob
At 04:54 PM 2/10/2000 -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm) writes:
>
>> Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> > Logitech being the canonical provider of PC mice, I looked in the
>> > NECX catalog for something suitable. NECX #124806 is a 3 Button PS/2
>> > mouse that should be perfectly sufficient for our needs, with a unit
>> > price of $15.58. Assuming no one has a strong hatred of Logitech, would
>> > it be possible for Marine to order some of these for the machines in the
>> > w20 cluster?
>> >
>> > Garry
>>
>> It would be far more efficient for someone to just go to microcenter or
>> compusa and buy them out.
>
>I really prefer the logitech mice, and I'd rather we didn't buy icky
>stuff. Microcenter does not have logitech mice in stock much anymore
>(last two times I was there). I'd prefer we got like 30 of the
>logitech mice and asked for rush rush rush delivery. If people don't
>want to stomach whatever additional cost that is, then we can head
>down to microcenter.
>
>Can the Powers That Make Money Decisions let me know asap whether we
>can do a rush order? If we can't then I'll go to microcenter and find
>suitable mice, though I doubt they will be as nice as the logitech
>ones.
>
>Thomas
>
