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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: mickey-mouse mice - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 17:32:50 EST
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I tried the mouse on the Apple Macintosh in an office supply store
the other day, and was generally favorably impressed with the feel
of the mouse, EXCEPT...

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...the damn ball is under the BACK of the mouse, not under the button!

Now look, folks, the whole point of the mouse is that it is a kinesthetic
extension of your body, like a pencil or a steering wheel or a screwdriver.
You're supposed to be able to use it naturally without thinking about it.
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The Macintosh mouse is the only one I have used for more than a few
minutes, so perhaps I lack the notion of what a "good" mouse should
feel like.  But I find that the mouse DOES feel like a kinaesthetic
extension of my arm.  "Up" on the screen is "out" from the elbow, and
sideways is a wrist movement.  I find little difficulty in single pixel
control, and really don't seem to think about the mouse much at all.
It just does what I think I want on the screen, without my worrying
about how to move my hand.  I move the cursor instead, in spite of the
fact the the movement on the table-top is at all sorts of odd angles
when I actually look at the mouse.

The others I have used have been three-button (also 4-button puck on
a drawing tablet), and I find that the context-sensitive one-button
control is easier to deal with unconsciously than the multi-button
system.  Of course, it's all a matter of what you are used to ....
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Martin Taylor
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