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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: Xerox mouse pads
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Date: 2 Feb 89 06:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Feb  2 00:39:00 1989


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
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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