While we're at it, I wanted to inform everybody that I had an old Apple II "MousePaint" mouse and it hooked up to the 128k and did everything I could get it to do with the horizontal deflection issue (which primarily is ejecting the boot floppy I bought for it.) I have not noticed any problems from using the Apple II MousePaint mouse, and wanted to know if it could be a usable backup mouse or if it would permanently injure the 128k to use it like a 5.25" floppy would.

I am curious to know if anyone else who has a M0001 model Mac (original Macintosh, 128k, 512k, 512ke, Plus, or some combination thereof with all the degrees of upgrading that were possible) have used a MousePaint Apple II mouse with their Macintosh and if so, was there any difference between it and a Lisa mouse or a standard M0001 Mac mouse? I will buy an official keyboard and mouse once I get the screen issue fixed, but in the meantime want to be able to test the machine as effectively as possible.

Final portion: The MousePaint mouse came to me missing its mouse ball and locking ring, but I had a very early Apple Desktop Bus Mouse I and it had the proper size mouse ball and proper size locking ring. As I had tons of others, losing this one wasn't too big a deal, especially to revive an Apple II MousePaint mouse.

(And yes, it does have the beige color of the Apple IIe/IIe Enhanced but with a beige mouse button instead of dark grey, which Google spat back was an Apple II MousePaint mouse...

Thanks everybody and have a blessed day!

Alex Harris