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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Trackballs for Sun
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Date: 13 Oct 90 03:38:59 GMT
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In article <14823@bunker.UUCP> Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 10970
>
>What's the current story on the availability of trackballs to
>replace the mice (meese?) used on Sun workstations?  The Illinois
>TAAD Center did some inquiries a few months ago and heard that
>something was under development.

Per my earlier message, here's an included message you may find useful:

|Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 14:35:30 PDT
|From: cjh@Corp.Sun.COM (Connie Brobeck - Education and Research Mktg.)
|To: era@ncar.ucar.edu
|Subject: track balls
|
|Hi Ed -
|All except the first one on the list (from the UK) are listed in the
|Summer Catalyst Catalog.
|There's also a comment at the end made by one of our customers in the UK.
|
|I'll attending the EDUCOM conference next week and will be talking with
|folks involved with adaptive technology.  I'm trying to find a home
|within Sun engineering and marketing for this area!
|
|Cheers!
|Connie
|
|Track Balls
|-----------
|
|ELECTRONE
|Haywood House
|High Street Pinner
|Middlesex
|England
|01 429 2433
|
|MOUSETRAK model M5 SUN
|
|
|
|Evergreen Systems International, Inc.
|31336 Via Colinas
|Westlake Village, CA 91362
|818/991-7835
|Robert Hulle
|
|DIAMOND XX Trackball
|$365, edu. discount available
|
|
|ITAC Systems, Inc.
|3121 Benton Drive
|Garland, TX 75042
|800/533-4822
|Peter Whitney
|
|MOUSE-TRAK
|$179
|
|
|Microspeed, Inc.
|44000 Old Warm Springs Blvd.
|Fremont, CA 94538
|415/490-1665
|Sales Dept.
|
|TRAC Trackball
|$199, edu. discount available
|
|
|One customer using a trackerball used a chopstick as a pushing device:
|"We had one problem with the tracker ball - how to push the smooth
|surface with a pointed chopstick.  This was overcome very simply - we
|wound an elastic band round the end - worked perfectly."
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