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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Workbench 1.4 suggestion
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Date: 28 Mar 89 19:21:21 GMT
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In article <399@gtss.gatech.edu> chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) writes:
>Hey, eight buttons and we can enter the entire ASCII code set (including
>the high order bit) directly with the mouse!  Mousers will be able to dispense
>with that pesky keyboard at last.  Or better yet, since it would be hard to
>enter NUL just with the mouse, how about just putting a inverted trackball on
>the bottom of the keyboard.  That would give us something like a hundred-
>button mouse, free up the mouse port up for something useful like a
>second joystick, and open up desk space besides.  Let's see BM and Apple
>compete with that.
>
>Charles Cleveland   Georgia Tech School of Physics   Atlanta, GA 30332-0430

Actually, it's not so far fetched.  I read an article in the paper awhile
back about a partially handicapped person who found it very hard to switch
between the keyboard and the mouse continuously.  So invented keyboard that
acted as a mouse.  The keyboard would slide around, and had a blank area
to rest your palms.  A special key was used as the mouse click (I seem to
recall that it was just below the space bar and pressed with the thumb).
This was a MacIntosh, so the keyboard was pretty small anyway, and you only
needed one button.  He tried it out on some of his non-handicapped friends
and they liked it.  I don't recall if he was selling it or not.

(gosh, no more cursor keys :-)

Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	Can you "Spot the Looney"?