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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Not impressed with MacX
Summary: get a clue
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Date: 2 Dec 90 03:13:05 GMT
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In article <1990Dec1.200407.17688@relay.wpd.sgi.com> mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang) writes:
>It is unfortunate that the Mac has a one-button mouse as a standard,
>just as HP systems have a two-button mouse.

WRONG!

HPs have whatever I/O devices you order them with. Before X, HP promoted a
two-button mouse. With the advent of X, three button mice were made
available, and there's all sorts of other devices that you can throw onto
HP's Human-Interface Loop (HIL) as well, e.g. trackballs, pucks, styluses,
knob boxes, button boxes, or whatever.

I personally dislike mice, so I use a three button trackball instead (HP
Part # M1309A). There's also an HIL-to-quadrature adaptor available that
will allow you to interface to PC input devices that you can find at your
local/mailorder microcomputer supplier.

(PS: Don't ask me for part numbers and more info -- call your HP sales rep)

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	    Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com
		  Human-Computer Interaction Department
		       Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
			      Palo Alto, CA.
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