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From: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: the Trackman botch (Re: Left Handed programmers)
Message-ID: <597@wattres.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 09:03:05 GMT
References: <10401@stiatl.UUCP> <1990Aug16.080332.1572@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk> <1488@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <1990Aug21.001217.28123@ico.isc.com> <596@wattres.UUCP> <12690@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Organization: Steven Watt, Consultant
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In article <12690@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.uucp writes:
>In <596@wattres.UUCP> I scribbled:
>
>>  The new FasTrac (I think) by MicroSpeed is *very* well laid out for doing
			(I lied, it's a PC-Trac)
>>drags, using index fingers, and using either hand!  The layout looks something
>>like this:

[picture deleted]

>The problem with *that* approach is that you only get two buttons.
>But I suppose that's enought for most people.  Microspeed also makes

[...the FastTRAP... [slurp!]]

>But FastTRAP has a old-fashioned boxlike case, unlike the PC-Trac's
>curved fit-in-you-palm design.

Actually, I think that if you run the MicroSpeed supplied drivers for the PC-
Trac, you get all three buttons...  Since I only really use the Amiga one, I
only need two...

Also, I did not find the FastTRAP very easy to do drags with (almost
impossible!)...  But I do like the Z-axis wheel.  That's one of the
better ideas...

-- 
Steve Watt
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