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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Control panel on Mac+
Message-ID: <1648@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 03:29:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 18 03:29:01 1986
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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In article <180@ut-dillo.UUCP> darin@ut-dillo.UUCP (Darin Adler) writes:
>Mouse scaling is still around.  You see, almost no one turned mouse scaling
>off, except for people with funny mouse-like devices, such as a digitizing
>pad.  Thus, Apple renamed "mouse scaling off" to "Tablet" and "mouse scaling
>on" to "Mouse".

Thanks.  I managed to figure out that this is what the Tablet option was
for myself.

>...  Also, I
>think the old Control Panel had a classy look to it that the new one is
>missing.

While I agree with this statement about the look of the old Control
Panel, I think Apple was correct in changing the style.  I remember the
first time I played with a Mac at a computer store.  I went into the
control panel, and had a little trouble deciphering some of the
pictures, especially the auto-repeat controls.  I walked across the room
and tried the control panel on the Lisa, and was pleasantly surprised
that it had English captions.  When I first tried the Mac+, I had the
same feeling.  I never understood why they removed them between the Lisa
and the Mac.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
    ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
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