Gary Woods wrote:
"Mike" wrote:

I don't know how they wrote this with a straight face.

They didn't. It was a gag memo circulated many, many years ago.
Now many mice don't even have balls.
Tragic.

Indeed. IBM official documents would never use short words like "spare
mouse balls" when a much longer and more convoluted name could be
foisted on the world.

Replacement Spheroidal Elastomeric Pointing Device Component or RSEPDC
for short. That would be much more plausible IBM speak...

To be authentic the official acronym must be at least as long as the
short word it replaces and totally unpronouncable.

Regards,
Martin Brown