Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu!tparker
From: tparker@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Laptop with Isopoint "mouse"
Keywords: laptop isopoint mouse windows
Message-ID: <10450@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 05:16:11 GMT
References: <70965@microsoft.UUCP>
Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
Lines: 20

In article <70965@microsoft.UUCP> garye@microsoft.UUCP (Gary ERICSON) writes:
>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

Gary,

GRID's GRIDCase 1550sx has an IsoPoint control bar.  It is reviewed in
the March issue of PC Magazine (page 139).  The reviewer said the
IsoPoint worked with "mixed results".

On page 310 it also says that this is the only portable that currenty
uses an IsoPoint, and that the IsoPoint is made by Culver Research (415)
851-1202.

Hope this helps,
Tom