Mouse Unfreezing

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From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1987 00:07

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I had a problem where my mouse froze, and was about to reboot when I
discovered something interesting.

If you have the new Easy Access feature installed, you can drive the mouse
with the numeric keypad, even though the mouse might be stuck.
Consequently, you can get back to the Finder and restart your machine to
cure the problem.

This is not very surprising, since the main cause of mouse freezing is a
random hit to some hardware register.  Easy Access is a totally software
driven thing, so it has a better chance of working.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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Subject: Mouse Unfreezing
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 20:07:20 EDT
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