[SunHELP] Fwd: Pad 370-1663

[Betsy Schwartz]

This site shows the measurements.
https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/mousesystems/metalpad.shtml

the one with finer lines is the Sun mousepad

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:58 PM Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This guy has an extreme closeup of an old optical mouse pad; it isn't a
> Sun pad but I believe the Sun ones worked on the same principle. They had
> to be in the correct orientation
> http://kuzyatech.com/optical-mouse-the-old-way
>
> I've also seen those mice work (not well) against medium-faded blue jeans
> , which have the same pattern of darker lines running one way.
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:43 PM Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you can't find one or need (really need) to have one, try a piece of
>> galvanized sheet metal like for hot air ducts.  I did years ago until I
>> obtained the correct pad.  The cursor moved like a drunken sailor but it
>> works in a pinch.  Bob
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 14:03 Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>>
>> > This is the Mouse Systems mouse with the metal pad with the
>> > screen-printed superfine array of little tiny triangles (if you looked
>> > at it closely)?
>> >
>> > There used to be a file floating around that would generate a working
>> > printout of those on a Postscript laser printer.  I no longer have it,
>> > and a search attempt has so far failed to turn it up.  The pads are as
>> > rare as hens' teeth now because they were somewhat fragile, haven't been
>> > made on over 20 years, and mostly got thrown out when the systems they
>> > came with were decommissioned, by people who couldn't imagine that a
>> > mere mouse pad would ever be inportant to anyone.
>> >
>> > Good luck finding one.  But with a diligent search, you MIGHT find the
>> > right file.  It has been known to work when printed on heavyweight
>> > gloss-coated paper using a 600dpi color laser printer, but as you'd
>> > expect, is not very durable.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> >   Babylon Communications
>> >   phils at caerllewys.net
>> >   phil at co.ordinate.org
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