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From: cook@stout.ucar.edu (Forrest Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
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Date: 6 Dec 88 21:29:57 GMT
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In article <342@inuxj.UUCP> wgb@inuxj.UUCP (Walter Burton) writes:
>I knew there was a reason track balls always seemed attractive.
...
>Now if some keyboard folks are out there how about putting trackballs
>into the keyboard.

Trackballs are indeed very nice devices for entering xy coordinates.
Unfortunately, the mouse has one big advantage: the ability to move and
click buttons at the same time with one hand.  This would be difficult on
a trackball.  Too bad a mouse doesn't have momentum like a trackball.

 ^	Forrest Cook   (The preceding comments were my Opinions)	 ^
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