->  PC> "Memo of the Month," From The Washington Monthly,
->  PC> January/February 1991, page 24:

->  PC> "This is an actual alert to IBM Field Engineers that went
->  PC> out to all IBM Branch Offices.  The person who wrote it was
->  PC> very serious.  The rest of us find it rather funny.

->  I saw this years ago. I suspect the author knew exactly what he
->  was saying. I would not be surprised to find it was a group
->  effort from IBM personell in an after work relaxation session at
->  the local pub.

 I think it was mostly "Tounge in Cheek" but several vendors did actualy
sell replacement Mouse Balls. As I recal one of them was "Cyber Guys"
and maybe "Computer Geeks"
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