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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: 2 button mouse
Message-ID: <3332@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 21 Apr 88 21:25:37 GMT
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In article <2432@utah-gr.UUCP>,
fish%kzin.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Russ Fish) writes:
> 
> The idea of putting a one-handed keyboard on a mouse has already occurred to
> Sam Drake, a Mechanical Engineering professor here who works with our Alpha_1
> geometric modeling system.  I saw him building prototype injection moulds last
> year.  

(Sorry if this is redundant -- I missed the start of the discussion)

I was in Tokyo back in January, and in one of the thousands of stores
selling NEC PC's (I swear, every mom&pop store was selling them), I
saw an overgrown mouse with all the standard keyboard keys mapped onto
it.  It was a little larger than half a softball, and the computer
had no other keyboard attached.  I'm a little fuzzy on the details
but I seem to remember close to a dozen keys on the thing, and it
seemed VERY confusing to use (but I didn't have time to get used
to it).

I haven't seen anything like it over here (but how many stores over here
have CD-ROM drives on the shelf?  Over there almost all of the bigger
shops had them!).

-- Tim
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