From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mcmanis.mark@USC-ECLC
Newsgroups: net.works
Title: Re: WORKS Digest V3 #10
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1071
Posted: Sun Apr 24 00:08:00 1983
Received: Wed Apr 27 07:19:08 1983

From:  Mark Moulding <mcmanis.mark@USC-ECLC>

    Regarding the use of a thumb-pad in lieu of a trackball or mouse,
Apollo apparently thought a touch pad might not be such a bad idea, so
the keyboards of the newer nodes, as well as their new DN300 desk-top
node, all have touch-pads.  If anyone ever comes out with a trackball
replacement for that little piece of rubber, I'd be the first in line
to buy one.  I find it almost impossible (after playing with 'absolute',
'relative', and 'combination' tp modes with all sorts of scaling factors)
to make practical use of the tp for editing, getting between windows,
program input (with fancy OS calls), or anything! It's difficult to
locate a character precicely, or make long movements fast1
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