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Article #27405Re: 2 button mouse
From: Tim Northrup
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 21:25
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 21:25
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In article <2432@utah-gr.UUCP>, fish%kzin.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Russ Fish) writes: > > The idea of putting a one-handed keyboard on a mouse has already occurred to > Sam Drake, a Mechanical Engineering professor here who works with our Alpha_1 > geometric modeling system. I saw him building prototype injection moulds last > year. (Sorry if this is redundant -- I missed the start of the discussion) I was in Tokyo back in January, and in one of the thousands of stores selling NEC PC's (I swear, every mom&pop store was selling them), I saw an overgrown mouse with all the standard keyboard keys mapped onto it. It was a little larger than half a softball, and the computer had no other keyboard attached. I'm a little fuzzy on the details but I seem to remember close to a dozen keys on the thing, and it seemed VERY confusing to use (but I didn't have time to get used to it). I haven't seen anything like it over here (but how many stores over here have CD-ROM drives on the shelf? Over there almost all of the bigger shops had them!). -- Tim -- Tim "The Enchanter" Northrup ---------------------------- "She's strange, tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com or uunet!steinmetz!brspyr1!tim and I like it!" ==================================================== -- Cameo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!brspyr1!tim From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: 2 button mouse Message-ID: <3332@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Date: 21 Apr 88 21:25:37 GMT References: <147@infmx.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 29