Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!labrea!agate!saturn!ssyx!ulmo
From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (scritzifchisted ulmo qzutvchsxik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
Message-ID: <5164@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 88 05:42:12 GMT
References: <15572@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <16891@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu
Lines: 13

In article <16891@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> casey@cs.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) writes:
>| From: 128a-3aj@e260-3b.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman)
>| REALLY bothers me, unless someone justifies it soon, is that the mouse
>| and keyboard plug into the monitor. [...]
>  As I understand it, one of the major `ergonomic' goals of the beast was
>to reduce the typical rat's nest of wires that most computers require.

One thing I can never stand is having two cords coming out of a keyboard
which is in my lap.  One is already quite bad enough.  Is there a way
to move that rodent's tail away from the input to all of my work?

>[commercial interests ...] willing to fill the gap.
I hope so.