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From: rubin@arnor.UUCP (Bill Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Laptop with Isopoint "mouse"
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.200118.18464@arnor.uucp>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:01:18 GMT
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In <2023@borg.cs.unc.edu> hardarso@tlab2.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) writes:

>      I've seen the Isobar in action on a Grid machine, I loved it.
> However, now I have a Zeos which doesn't have a mouse built in...
> Are there any microsized trackballs out there that could be attached
> to a laptop, or small enough to fit in a matchbox? Just wondering.

I had heard a rumor, and in fact there was supposed to be an announcement
in PC Magazine last issue (the article was removed, but not the pointer
to it elsewhere in the magazine), that Microsoft was planning to come out
with a clip-on trackball for laptops. The person I spoke to at PC Magazine
said they had no idea what happened, just that it was not announced so
they had to pull the article.

I think this is a *really* great idea, and I can hardly wait for it to become
available. Microsoft denies any knowledge of this product. Perhaps the person
who originated this topic, who happened to have an address of microsoft.uucp,
could give us some information.

-- Bill