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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STacy review in EM
Message-ID: <7340072@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 91 17:09:09 GMT
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>    GEM has more serious problems than that with its double click.  My father,
>    who is 60 years old and has unsteady hands, can't double click on his 1040
>    if his life depended on it.  I think GEM doesn't recognize a double click
>    if the mouse is moved between the clicks, even if they occured within the
>    required timespan.  I've never seen anyone have problems double clicking
>    on the Mac.

Uh, have you ever seen your father (or any other 60-year-old with unsteady
hands) double click on a Mac?

If you take your hand off the body of the mouse to do the clicks, the chance of
accidentally moving it between clicks goes down.  Awkward, but if his life
depended on it...

Your father might find a trackball invaluable here.  Even the unsteadiest of
clicking fingers won't move that sucker if you keep your hand off the ball.

In any case, this clicking business is a pretty lame thing to center a review
on.  Hopefully he spent a good deal of time on quality of the hardware,
application software, and price.  Since the review was specifically of STacy,
concentrating on STacy-specific things (like portability, the LCD screen, the
trackball, etc) would also have been nice.

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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