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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MousePads cheap!
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:32:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 10:32:56 1985
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> 
> 	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.

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