Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
Message-ID: <3564@phri.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 16:07:47 GMT
References: <3549@phri.UUCP> <3954@encore.UUCP> <7614@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In <3954@encore.UUCP> bzs@xenna (Barry Shein) writes:
> What if you put the "tail" on the mousepad instead of the mouse

In <7614@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> chekmate@athena.mit.edu (Adam Kao) replies:
> Congratulations.  You've just invented the graphics tablet.

	All the graphics tablets I've seen (GTCO, Summagraphics, etc) have
cords running to the stylus/puck/mouse in addition to cords running to the
tablet.  Just makes it worse, not better.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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