Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!yee From: yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Subject: Re: Track ball on a keyboard? Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 15:29:25 GMT References: <91163.083144CJS@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Jun12.142307.210@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 19 In-reply-to: klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 12 Jun 91 14:23:07 GMT In article <1991Jun12.142307.210@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) writes: > This is what the 3rd party Mac portable (the Outbounder?) uses. > It's a bar that sits just below that space bar with a button > on each side. Haven't heard raves about it but anything new would > take some getting used to. I saw a drawing of a new Mac portable in Mac Week, and guess what? It had a small trackball centered just below the keyboard's spacebar. Look like it could be more convenient to use than a mouse. =Mike -- == Michael K. Yee -+- OSF/Motif Team == Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 == HCI quote : "The problem with mnemonics are that they : == of the month : mean different things to different people." :