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From: bill@crystal.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Running laps with your mouse (ie. tired mice)
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 15:52:24 EDT
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> An even cheaper and possibly better mouse pad is the material used to cover 
> drafting boards. It only costs $0.013 per square inch ($20 per yard by 42 in.)
> compared with $0.05 for Nylon I.  I bought it at a local art supply store.
> Unfortunately I can't give you a fancy name for it as the sales clerk didn't
> even know what it was called!  It is rubbery, smooth, firm, green on one side,

"Drawing board cover" is the standard name.  One brand/additional name is
"Vinyl-Flex" .  Standard widths are 36, 37-1/2, 43-1/2, and 48 inch.
Great stuff.  Blueprint and technical drawing shops usually have it as well.

> white on the other, and about a 1/16th of an inch thick.  I bought enough to 
> cover my whole desk for $13.50. Now I have an excellent writing surface as well
> as a safe place for my mouse to run around...
> (They claim it is also self-healing, what ever they mean by that.)

Self-healing refers to a resealing when a knife (e.g., Exacto) is used on the
surface in making paste-ups.  I didn't know of any drawing board covers that
are self-healing, only [very] expensive smaller cutting boards.
-- 
	William Cox
	Computer Sciences Department
	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
	bill@uwisc
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