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From: jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (James G. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: a plea to Apple -- something for the offhand
Keywords: new input device
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Date: 19 Jul 90 18:15:25 GMT
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I should make this plea to the whole pc community, but heck, I have some
admiration for companies with major R&D.

This is a plea for someone to come up with an input device for the off hand/
non mouse-using hand.  I would suggest a dial or pair of dials.  The immediate
use that I see for such a device would be to scroll the active window (one 
dial for horizontal and one for vertical).  The best example I know of where
such a system was implemented (I think very effectively) was the video game
Tempest.

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(Ted Nelson may have made such a statement in Computer Lib (his book), in which case he may also claim a patent or copyright or some such.)