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- From: marklc@umbc3.umbc.edu (Mr. Mark L. Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sick of dinky mouse pads.
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 10:15:19 -0500
- Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
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- There is another simple solution which you may or may not like -- a trackball!
- I have no room on my desk at this point (like anybody else out there that
- seems to believe that things get scattered by themselves), so I went to a
- trackball about a year ago. After about 2 days of use, I decided that I would
- never go back to a mouse again! My only recommendation is to get a trackball
- that is ergonomically designed. This is what I'm talking about:
-
- ---------------------------------
- | | | | | | |
- | ------ | * | | * | | * | Note: the *'s represent the buttons
- | / \ | | | | | |
- | | | ----- ----- -----
- | | ball |
- | \------/
- |
- ----------------------------------
-
- The above is a slightly disproportionate view of a well designed trackball.
- You use your thumb for the ball and you press the buttons with your first
- three fingers (like a regular mouse).
-
- This is a bad trackball:
-
- ---------------------------------
- | ------- -------- ---------- |
- | | | | | | | |
- | | * | | * | | * | |
- | | | | | | | |
- | ------- -------- ---------- |
- | |
- | /-----------\ |
- | | | |
- | | ball | |
- | | | |
- | \-----------/ |
- ---------------------------------
-
- The problem with this trackball is that your thumb has to be in a wierd
- position if you are planning on using the buttons
- --OR--
- You have to angle your hand 45 degrees and grow your pointer finger about
- 3 inches...
-
- These opinions are my own and everybody is free to disagree, but this is
- my personal opinion. BTW, I own a Logitech which looks something like my
- first diagram...
-
- Mark Cohen marklc@umbc4.umbc.edu
-