On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > Allegedly you can crumple up a piece of aluminum foil, smooth it
> > out again, and use that as a (pretty bad) mouse pad for those
> > optical mice. I've never tried this, though. :-)
> 
> About 5 years ago there was a Postscript file floating around that would
> produce a working 'mouse pad'.
> 
> Does anyone know what happened to it?


http://www.cs.rice.edu/~marka/personal/Xterm.html


> 
> I scanned my pad in on a hi-res scanner and printed it out on an inkjet
> and it worked, badly.
> 
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