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From: edelheit@smiley.uucp (Jeff Edelheit)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Track ball on a keyboard?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.211405.12706@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 12 Jun 91 21:14:05 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.142307.210@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) writes:
>CJS@psuvm.psu.edu 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 have tried the isobar on the Outbound.  It's is also on a new MS-DOS
notebook computer (but I can't remember which one.)  I don't like the
isobar.  It doesn't track as well as the mouse or the trackball.
(BTW, the Outbound offers a mouse as an option).

I personally prefer the trackball, but am not sure I'd want it
attached to the keyboard.

Jeff