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Re: Xerox mouse pads

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From: gillies
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1989 06:39
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I never understood why the xerox optical mice "shit on the pad".

If you look at a worn pad, there are wierd black spots, perhaps caused
by light from the mouse?  Is it really true that the pads wear out
because the mouse goes to bathroom on them????


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
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