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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: trackballs
Message-ID: <309@mks.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 17:25:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.309
Posted: Tue Oct 20 17:25:42 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Oct-87 20:06:43 EDT
References: <8710192011.AA17632@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <8710192011.AA17632@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, F27FRAJP@CARLETON.BITNET (GEORGE FRAJKOR) writes:
> .....
> it is a standard WICO trackball rewired to work like a mouse
> and it has two buttons corresponding to left and right mouse
> buttons. .... Dragging is  (pardon me)
> a real drag since you have to hold down one button while
> spinning a ball, but all other operations are faster and

I have done work on a computer used in the schools here, and it uses
a trackball. It is built in to the keyboard (sort of) so it doesn't
slide around the desk. It gets around the drag problem by having one
of the buttons way on the other side of the keyboard. This way, you
can press with your left hand, and roll with your right. Now, I'm
left handed (almost ambidextrous), and find this is OK. How do right
handed people feel about pressing a pseudo mouse button with the left
hand? It's not really much different than typing with two hands.
(You do type with two hands, don't you?)
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