Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!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 19:07:00 GMT References: <91163.083144CJS@psuvm.psu.edu> <2909@sumax.seattleu.edu> <1991Jun12.181324.12617@den.mmc.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 25 In-reply-to: doehr@magellan.den.mmc.com's message of 12 Jun 91 18:13:24 GMT In article <1991Jun12.181324.12617@den.mmc.com> doehr@magellan.den.mmc.com (Brett B. Doehr) writes: > They are popular with the > portable computer industry and also with space applications like > shuttle and space station. In zero-gravity, a mouse would float > at the end of its cable, you may accidently click a mouse button > when grabbing it, etc. Yeah, you're right. In zero-gravity, the ball in a mouse would also float. May be an optical mouse with a magnetic base attached to its mating steel optical mouse pad would be better. Hmmm... may be I should patent it. Yeah, that's the ticket! And I'll call it the Mighty-Mouse! And for keyboards, how about a tiny magnetic mouse (about the size of a finger) attached to a steel pad the size of the numeric keypad. The mouse button would be the size of the mouse, but requires firm finger pressure to activate. Hmmm... may be I should patent this too, and call it .... Mini-Mouse 8*). =Mike -- == Michael K. Yee -+- OSF/Motif Team == Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 == "Live simply, so that others may simply live."