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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More Mouses
Message-ID: <1996@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 02:18:14 EST
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1996
Posted: Sat Apr  4 02:18:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 08:45:10 EST
References: <8704012015.AA10356@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <587@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <4447@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
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Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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Keywords: mouse, trakball, in-between

In article <4447@utah-cs.UUCP> atwell@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Bart L. Atwell) writes:
>
>I got a flyer this week called the Computer Enthusiast Catalog.  In it, they
>have an ST trakball ("mouse ball" they call it) for $US29.95.  The company 
>is:
>
We bought a couple of these. They work quite well. They are modified
WICO trackballs. Dragging with a track ball can be a real trick, for
right handed persons. pm@case hacked the mouse ball, so that
the X signals become the Y signals, and you can orient the mouse ball
by turning it clockwise 90 degress (the buttons are now on the top right.
It makes dragging much easier. The jury is still out on if the mouse ball
is better than a mouse. I certainly enjoyed using it for the old version
of Flight Simulator. Now that the new version of Flight Simulator
supports a JoyStick (and runs on monochrome monitors), the self centering
feature the JoyStick made be give up using the mouse/mouse-ball for
flying. BTW EH Brown sells a 4Meg memory expansion board too. Did
anyone try it??
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