Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!quads.uchicago.edu!nwc1 From: nwc1@quads.uchicago.edu (einsturzende neubaten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Keyboard Control of the Mac Message-ID: <1990Dec12.015101.8939@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 12 Dec 90 01:51:01 GMT References: <1990Dec11.155505.7510@umiami.ir.miami.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 27 In article <1990Dec11.155505.7510@umiami.ir.miami.edu> gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Mondo) writes: >My mouse died. Just wouldn't no matter what I did. But you know the worse >part, you can use a Mac without it! I mean I don't mind the mouse, but >gee, just because some $100 part (now this I can hardly believe :) ) dies, >your $3000+ investment stands as a expensive paperweight. > >So while the System 7 people are busily stealing from Windows (a la >New Look), maybe they could add a feature that allows you to mainipulate >the desktop (select icons, delete files,etc...) from the keyboard only? >-- >Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?) >Hey, wanna save the world? | Got sumtin' to say? gross@umiami.bitnet >Nuke a Godless, Communist, | Pick and choose! gross@umiami.ir.miami.edu >gay whale for Christ. | gross@miavax.ir.miami.edu > - Anonymous | jgross@umbio.med.miami.edu Um, This sounds like a job for . . . Easy Access! Included in the system software, and well documented, I had to use this for a little while, for the same reason-my mouse died, also. See earlier postings? The button quit. Anyhow, just wait until Jason Gross finds out the replacement policy!!! (give 'em $80 AND your mouse, and get a new one) no repairs possible. Good luck. 'later!