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From: ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: a plea to Apple -- something for the offhand
Message-ID: <30061.26a665ae@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 02:00:14 GMT
References: <1412@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
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In article <1412@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (James G. Smith) writes:
> 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.

This is going on in another string...

Why not use the built-in shift, command, option, and control keys?

It's what I do all day... trust me, it's easy...

> 
> *
> (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.)
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                       || 
C Irby                 || "In one 8 hour period, I worked on a VAX, a
ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu  ||  Macintosh, three MS-DOS clones, a Novell server,
ac08@untvax            ||  a Unix box, and an Apple IIGS.
                       ||  And people wonder why my concentration is