Welcome to my small collection of Sun mousepads

I have been a fan of Sun Microsystems keyboard for many years. The first one I used was a Type 4 which came with an optical mouse using a sheet of metal with a grid pattern. Then I had couple of Type 5 keyboards (which is still my favorite keyboard model). The Type 5 keyboard was originally also paired with an optical mouse (called Type 5 Optical Mouse) but in 1995 it was replaced with a mechanical mouse (called Compact 1 Mechanical Mouse). Mechanical mice do not need boring steel mousepads so Sun Microsystems took this opportunity and started shipping a foam mousepads in many different designs.

This page shows some mousepads I came into possession of over the years. Unfortunately mousepads (at least those I have) do not have any part number or copyright notice so I was unable to find any info about them.

	I think this is probably the oldest mousepad I have. I even seem to remember a wall-poster version of this or very similar picture. The workstation in the center of the picture is strange: it has a pre-Aurora chassis but the mouse is clearly a Type 5 shaped. The cuboid above the workstation looks like a two SPARCserver 1000 servers with a SPARCstorage array placed on an L-shaped floor stand. My guess is that this is a pre-1995 mousepad.
	I suppose this mousepad was released for the Ultra Computing event in November 1995.
	If I remember correctly, I got this one with my Type 6 keyboard.
	This is basically the same mousepad as the previous one, just without the "Network is the Computer" slogan which Sun Microsystems abandoned at some point around (after?) 2000. I think I got this one with the USB version of Type 6.
	I don't know much about this one. The "We're the dot in .com" motto suggests it was produced around 2000.

Please let me know if you have any interesting info regarding those or other Sun mousepads. Also please let me know if you are author of the artwork and you are not happy with seeing your work here.