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From: chekmate@athena.mit.edu (Adam Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
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Date: 22 Oct 88 23:48:23 GMT
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In article <3954@encore.UUCP> bzs@xenna (Barry Shein) writes:
->
->What if you put the "tail" on the mousepad instead of the mouse and
->made the pad the active component, sensing the mouse's movements and
->sending them. Seems that could be done with some sort of magnetic or
->similar interface in the mouse, even a battery in the mouse would be
->within the stated design parameters. The point is that the mouse
->wouldn't be attached to anything.
->
->	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||

Congratulations.  You've just invented the graphics tablet.

Adam

"There is nothing new under the sun." (oops, excuse me)