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From: tparker@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Laptop with Isopoint "mouse"
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Date: 4 Mar 91 00:17:51 GMT
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>Atari's laptop (the "STacy") replaces the mouse with a small trackball
>on the righthand side of the keyboard.  I haven't used one, but from
>all reports it works quite well.  Apparently the machine is a big hit
>with the professional musician crowd, since like all of the Atari
>machines it has built-in midi ports.  Has anyone had any first-hand
>experience with one of these critters?  How good is the display?

I don't have any first-hand experience, but I read an article in the
Feb. issue of Keyboard magazine that generally panned the Stacy.

Oh by the way, the other laptop that uses an isopoint is the Outbound 
Systems Macintosh-compatible, as described on page 225 of the Feb.
issue of Byte.

Tom