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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse vs Trackball!
Message-ID: <25979@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 12:48:26 GMT
References: <584@tau.sm.luth.se> <990@wsu-cs.uucp> <6705@pdn.paradyne.com>
Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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In article <6705@pdn.paradyne.com> wolfe@cygnus.paradyne.com (Mike Wolfe) writes:
>>I find a Track ball a real nuisance to use, especially to replace a mouse.
>>Just imagine how you would click and drag with a track ball [...]

>In article <990@wsu-cs.uucp> jal@demeter.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:

>Of course you wouldn't have this problem if the interface didn't require
>you to hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse.  I don't understand
>why this is the case.

I've played with a trackball for a Mac -- it was pretty easy to use.  The
button was on the lower left (and right) corner of the box, several inches
from the trackball itself.  It was no problem to hold down the button with
my thumb and spin the trackball with my other fingers.

The trackball has to be designed for this though; I could well imagine that
a standard-issue game trackball would be harder to use.
-- 
Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek
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