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Holy smokes!! That perspective is some serious cash for an otherwise lacking arcade port. Early video games clearly were not for the faint of wallet!

Another mail present!
 

Before TV video games, home computers and even the Internet, entertainment was one way and audio only...

I think so too, but it reminds me a little of the Shuttle craft used in V.

That is a VERY good idea.  Sadly both the Office Max and Office Depot have shut down here in Longview.  There is still a Staples in Chehalis, I'll probably drop by on Saturday when I go up to Centralia to visit my Mom in the nursing home.

That is a VERY good idea.  Sadly both the Office Max and Office Depot have shut down here in Longview.  There is still a Staples in Chehalis, I'll probably drop by on Saturday when I go up to Centralia to visit my Mom in the nursing home.

I think so too, but it reminds me a little of the Shuttle craft used in V.

Maybe go to Office Depot or some other store that has a lot of mice out on display that you can touch and feel to pick just the right one. 

The shapes are very different.  M705 on the left, M650 on the right. 
 

Fair enough, I totally get that. Again being the odd one, as it turns out, though you and I suspect most would use their thumb on the trackball I am left-handed, as well I have fairly large hands so my thumb is never used sitting to the right of the buttons, my index finger clicks the buttons and scrolls the wheel while my middle and next finger manipulate the trackball.  

 
That's a cool looking mouse. 

When looink up the M650 mouse that @RickR suggested, I came across this... 
 
... it looks like a great place to lay the thumb and the heel of the mouse is rubberized as well.  The wheel looks further away from the heel on the M650 & M705 as well which looks like it would be easier on my index finger.

Yeah, the shape has gotten painful for me, I have tendonitis and arthritis, so design is going to factor in BIG-TIME on my selection.  Mine only takes two AA batteries though. 

When looink up the M650 mouse that @RickR suggested, I came across this... 
 
... it looks like a great place to lay the thumb and the heel of the mouse is rubberized as well.  The wheel looks further away from the heel on the M650 & M705 as well which looks like it would be easier on my index finger.

Yeah, a trackball at that angle would be sheer physical torture for me.  I try to use my thumbs as little as possible.

Yeah, the shape has gotten painful for me, I have tendonitis and arthritis, so design is going to factor in BIG-TIME on my selection.  Mine only takes two AA batteries though. 

Thanks, I'll go check it out on Amazon.
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It looks a lot like my M705, but without the switch behind the wheel to go from free wheeling to stepped.

... okay I figured this topic would be the best place to ask this question.
My Logitech M705 mouse is nearing end of useful life.  The left button often makes multiple clicks, the side button is easily triggered and messes with windows and/or tabs and the center scroll wheel isn't as smooth as it used to be and is also painful to use.  So, does anyone have a suggestion for my next mouse?  I know you all use computers, so if you have a mouse that you think is simply wonderful, I'd love to hear about it.

Since there is no "Modern Computing Discussion Forum" here (yet) on the site, I thought I'd post my question here.
The setup to the question:  I rotate two Western Digital 25A3 8TB hard drives between my PC and the RPi 4 I have running KODI in another room.  I use two drives in case something happens to one drive I will not lose all my videos.  I also have a rather dog slow Passport 259F that's only 3TB for program, documentation and still photo backups.  Now here's the problem, the Internal drives on the PC, the main drive is a Toshiba Xg5 NVMe PCIe M.2 that is fast as hell, but two small to cram a lot of programs on, so I'm using a rather small Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB drive for programs that I don't use on a daily basis, but I want to augment the internal storage with something fast and of a decent size... to grow into.
<< THIS HARD DRIVE >> seems like a viable option, but knowing that some of you guys here are true experts, I thought I'd ask for some advice/input/alternative(s).  Thanks.

Yeah, I could, but I'd have to open it up again... ☹️

Ahh, I don't really have much on the way of PC games on my computer with the exception of a couple of "classic" steam programs.  Most of my intensive processing is done with video.