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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My favorite thing at MacWorld: A 6-D Mouse
Keywords: 3d
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Date: 23 Aug 89 14:20:48 GMT
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In article <3948@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In <15124@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
>(Thomas Summerall) writes:
>> [HyperSpace] is a new product [...] like a 6 dimensional mouse used for
>> inputting data from actual 3d models. [...] is available for $7500.
>
>	This may be new as a commercially available product, but the idea
>certainly goes back many years.

6 d digitizers have been commercial products for some years now (at least
4).  Perhaps this is the first time they have been connected to the Mac, 
but they have been used in the high-end graphics world for a long time.

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