Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!ukma!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: INFO Wanted on Track-ball mice substitutes Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 00:45:08 GMT References: <1991Apr8.005905.12711@starnet.uucp> <1991Apr9.204840.22320@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Lines: 22 wnn@ornl.gov writes: >In article <1991Apr8.005905.12711@starnet.uucp> orca@starnet.uucp (Sarah Emily >Liberman) writes: >>I'm interested in purchasing a track-ball input device to replace my >>conventional mouse. >Take a look at Felix from Altra too. It's not a trackball! >IMHO it is as great an improvement over a trackball as the >trackball is over the mouse. These devices require different amounts of coordination. I am one who has little of it and I have trouble with anything but a mouse. You might like to try each before you buy (if you can). There are people at work who use the Kensington Track Ball. I have to sit down to use it and I have trouble with them, but they work fine according to those w/ coordination and w/o the deskspace for a mouse. +--------------------------+---------------------------------------+ / Patrick Hoepfner | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center \ / America Online: PatrickH9 | Internet: hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov \ +-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+