Bill Garber wrote:
I find that in a pinch a nice 24# sheet of printer paper works very well as a mouse pad. And you can print a pattern for your optical to follow on the upper half, then fold. I do that when my present pad is too dirty to catch the ball and I just fold it in half, lay it over the pad I have and it works great until I can get out to pick up or order a new mouse pad. Try it. You may be pleasantly surprised.
Um, the Little Mouse is one of the early optical mice. There is no ball and it doesn't work using paper as a mousepad. It needs something more reflective with alternating dark so black print on aluminum works but paper or regular mousepads don't. The little Mouse originally came with a special mouse pad as ordinary ones don't work with it. Wayne