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From: t-wader@microsoft.UUCP (Wade Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse vs Trackball!
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Date: 29 Oct 89 00:02:44 GMT
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Disclaimer: I don't always agree with my boss, why should he agree with me?

In article <990@wsu-cs.uucp> jal@demeter.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
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=}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 and you'll see
=}why; you have to have one had pressing down the fire button and the other
=}hand rolling the ball.  It would probably be cheaper to just put your disk
=}boxes on the floor like I do and buy the smallest mouse mat you can find.

That's only because you have a poorly designed trackball.

The button(s) is supposed to be to the lower left (or right for lefties), so
that you use your thumb to click.  With this setup, the ball is just as easy
to move with the button depressed or not.

The other important thing that gets forgotten when desigining a trackball
is the sensitivity must depend on speed.  A straight linear trackball either
takes all day to go from one side of the screen to the other, or makes it
impossible to place the pointer exactly where it should be.

Personally, if I had a choice, I'd use a trackball over a mouse anyday.

	--- Wade