non-mouse pointer devic

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From: jerry halberstadt
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:16

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Computers have certain protocols for mouse pointing device. Joysticks,
gloves and other contgrol devices are used in games and input to a game
port with different protocols. I wold like to be abler to use a good
quality pointing device and have the computer see it as an ordinary mouse.
Trackballs are OK but not ideal. Graphics tablets using electromagnetic or
electrostatic sensors exist which present a mouse-like signal to the computer.

A couple of years ago there was a flurry of interest in a Nintendo power
glove with several people trying to adapt for use with various computers.

I am now using a PC (486 33 MHz) with        Windows, so the goal is to
present the PC with some input that looks like a Microsoft Mouse. Or I
could get a Sun but the principles would be the same.

Does anyone have a working device of this nature? Know how to do such a
thing?

Please reply by email.

Thanks.
-- 
Jerry Halberstadt	New Technology Publishing, Inc.
POB 9183: c/o Mailboxes Etc.(#110)
955 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02139 USA
617-661-3851		halberst@world.std.com

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From: halberst@world.std.com (jerry halberstadt)
Subject: non-mouse pointer devic
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Summary: To avoid discomfort due to working with mouse need other pointer device
Keywords: mouse, trackball,joystick, glove
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:16:39 GMT
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