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From: wave@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Politcally Correct alternative pointing devices
Summary: how to make a stylus a mouse
Message-ID: <5167@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 91 00:36:05 GMT
Reply-To: wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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(Peter Clark) writes:
>>
>>I would like to see NeXT adapt Apple's Desktop Bus standard. At the risk of
>>annoying the religious folk,the Desktop bus strikes me as being a great idea.
>>

This reminds me of something I keep meaning to ask about.  Here at the Media
Lab we have a whole bunch of Wacom tablets, which are cordless, pressure
ensitive tablets.  I'm sure it's as trivial to hook one of these up via
the serial port on the NeXT as it is to do it to any other random UNIX 
machine, but is there a politically correct way to allow me to use it as 
the mouse?  For a lot of drawing tasks, a cordless pressure sensitive stylus
with a button on it is far superior to a mouse.  

Please e-mail and I'll summarize to the net; there is far too much traffic
on this newsgroup as it is.


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