Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: MousePads cheap! Message-ID: <1461@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:32:56 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1461 Posted: Thu Sep 12 10:32:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 09:39:39 EDT References: <396@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 35 > > > Many of the Mouse Pads being sold today are made of wetsuit > material. Most SCUBA shops will stock material for repairs > which you can buy by the square inch. The material you should > ask for is Nylon I (Nylon one) which is Neoprene foam coated > on one side with Nylon cloth. The more common type of material > is Nylon II (Nylon two) which has Nylon cloth on both sides. > Nylon I is better because the pad won't slip when put rubber > side down. I guess Nylon II would work if you could keep > it from slipping (like glue it to a board). > > The material I bought was Top-of-the-Line material (the only > Nylon I they had) and cost $0.05 per square inch. > > -John A. Wasser When we got our Mac, my wife went out and bought a plastic placemat. It works marvelously, is easy to clean, and is very cheap. If you are lucky :-) you can get one like ours, which has Mickey Mouse on it! John' point about slippage should, however, be taken into account. We keep our Mac on a stock wooden door (obtain from any lumber company) which is used as a table. The wood does provide sufficient friction to keep the placemat in place (so much so that I never even thought about this problem until I read John's comment above). Presumably if you have your Mac on a smoother surface, there might be some slippage. -- | Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+-- | "A mind like cement: thoroughly mixed and permanently set" |