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Date: Tue 1 May 84 13:10:01-EDT
From: bill coderre <uw-beaver!SE.BC%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: MacPaint stuff
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA

The following is a compartmentalized flame. Feel free to ignore the
parts you don't like....

An Interesting (MacPaint) Hack: 

If you are in Pencil, and you hold the command key, clicking the mouse
button toggles FatBits, and where the pencil on the normal screen is
centered in the FatBits screen.

Flame:

Too bad this doesn't seem to be in the manual. It's an excellent idea,
and points out a Great Concept in mousing (no claims of origin or
originality...): GET BOTH HANDS BUSY! Allowing the left hand to
option-modify the command increases the bandwidth of the keyboard and
speeds things up a lot.

Daydream:

My vision of the ideal workstation keyboard is one with 5 keys on the
left side of the keyboard to do single click, double click,
constrained click, etc, and a trackball on the right side. This allows
lap operation and shortens the hand travel distance. Trackballs can be
made to be much more precise, too. It might become possible to do
freehand drawing (or at least make it easier).

I might (in the far future) hack together a mackeyboard like that. If
any computer company wants to bring out a keyboard like that, by all
means go ahead with my blessing. I'd like it.

...................................................................bc
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