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From: atk@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Laptop with Isopoint "mouse"
Keywords: laptop isopoint mouse windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.141202.8159@csn.org>
Date: 3 Mar 91 14:12:02 GMT
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In article <10450@ncar.ucar.edu> tparker@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker) writes:
>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,
=>

=>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.
=>

The Feb issue of byte magazine mentioned a second laptop that used the
IsoPoint. I don't have that issue in front of me - and I don't remember
any comments it made on the machine...

atk