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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?)
Message-ID: <3549@phri.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 00:37:37 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (scritzifchisted ulmo qzutvchsxik) writes:
> Is there a way to move that rodent's tail away from the input to
> all of my work?

	If I was designing a mouse, I'd loose the tail completely.  Some
kind of radio or infra-red data link sure would be nice.  Unfortunately,
I just don't see any way to engineer it that it would work.  Radio would
probably get the FCC all bent out of shape (and rightly so) and IR depends
on line-of-sight, which is hard to maintain on a typical cluttered desk.
I've seen sonic digitzers, but none that work reliably.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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