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From: grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Mouseman, C9, Trackman
Message-ID: <1991Apr01.025937.9734@bluemoon.uucp>
Date: 1 Apr 91 02:59:37 GMT
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>>  Those were a pretty bad idea, IMHO. The C9 was pretty good as it was.

>Not having seen them, I can't say whether the "hand fit" works out, but at
>least they figured out that if they're gonna make an asymmetric mouse, they
>need two models!

 I guess that is a point in their favor, even though it was an overall
blunder. :-}

>I'd love to be able to use a Trackman, but it's useless to me!  I'm left-
>handed, and there is NO way to adapt the thing to use with the left hand.

 The manual talks about a way (turning it sideways so the buttons are to
the left) but it looked pretty awkward...

>design.  I wonder, now that they've got two flavors of this Mouseman,
>whether they're finally gonna wake up and make a left-handed Trackman.

 It would make sense, so they probably won't... 
-- 
\  Grant DeLorean  (grant@bluemoon)    {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!grant  /
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation 
as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases
which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."-C.A. Beard