Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!microsoft!garye
From: garye@microsoft.UUCP (Gary ERICSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Laptop with Isopoint "mouse"
Keywords: laptop isopoint mouse windows
Message-ID: <70965@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:13:12 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Does anyone know if there are any laptops made with the Isopoint pointing
device built into the keyboard?  This would make using Windows and GUI
software in general actually possible on a laptop (I liked someone's
comment about using your neighbor's lap on an airplane for your mouse).

Gary Ericson - Microsoft - Work Group Apps

P.S. For those who don't know, the Isopoint device is a bar that sits below
the space bar of the keyboard where you can operate it with your thumbs
without lifting your hands from the keys.  You roll the bar back and forth
to get up and down cursor motion, and the bar slides side-to-side to get
left and right cursor motion.  It takes getting used to, but it seems like
a definite win on a laptop.