Come on, you don't have a box of mice kicking
around? Even
nontechnical people I know have at least two or three in a closet somewhere.
Err, no I don't. And nor do I have piles of keyboards, disk drives, etc.
I do have plenty of boxes of ICs, resistors, microswitches, LEDs, and so
on. That is the level I repair at.
In any case, I have so many different types of mice with different
interfaces on my machines here that I couldn't possibly keep spares for
all of them..
-tony