Reliable kit...
Well I still have as my primary mouse a generation 1 USB roller ball three button IBM mouse, circa 1994. People in the office laugh at it, and its cable that is long enough to reach over the back of the desk and down to the bottom of a tower placed on the floor underneath it. Never mind the fact I'm plugging it into a laptop 6 inches away.
It works, I have used it for 25 years, and aside the odd need to clean the rollers, there's nothing wrong with it.
2-3 years as a lifetime for an expensive, non repairable piece of kit should be a environmental crime.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
