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- From: music@erich.triumf.ca (FRED W. BACH)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: End-user on-line Motif tutorial
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:50 PST
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- In article <1993Jan25.093440.25311@slcs.slb.com>, brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com writes...
- #In article <23JAN199309331004@cvdv99.mayo.edu>, fisk@cvdv99.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk
- #| 2D-337 STM | 5-4341) writes:
- #>I realize that there are many women that have no difficulty using mice. The
- #>ones we see that are having the problem are those who have none or very limited
- #>computer experience and they use it while they are standing (which I think may
- #>be a big factor also). The reason why they are having the trouble was
- #>actually brought up by one of the users...not inferred on our part in anyway.
- #>And she is still running the mouse upside down and it works fine for her...
- #
- #Just curious, but what kind of mouse are you and your lady friends using?
- #Every mouse I have ever seen would not work upside down because gravity pulls
- #the ball "down" ("up" to the mouse) so that no contact is made on the internal
- #rollers. ...And how do you click on the button(s) if it/they are on the
- #bottom?
- #_______________________________________________________________
- #Harvey Brydon | Internet: brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
- #Dowell Schlumberger | P.O.T.S.: (918)250-4312
- #1. Politics 2. Religion 3. Women's (a) ages (b) weights (c) rights
-
- Now Harvey, they mean that the mouse's head is where its tail should be
- and so its connecting cable is under the wrist not beyond the index
- finger, (don't they?).
-
- ***************
-
- This brings up another idea. Has the mouse ever been used as
- a test for dyslexia? I wonder if the net has not come up with
- something here.... Any of you medics out there got any ideas?
- How about Chad at the Mayo Clinic ? :-)
-
- ****************
-
-
- Anyway, I heard that a trackball was just an upside-down mouse
- (in the sense to which you were referring). I would very much like
- to start a discussion on this group on the use of the mouse vs the
- trackball. I have my serious biases. (I hate the mouse because of
- the real-estate it needs to run and because it is never in the same
- place twice. I am a fairly good pianist, and if the piano got up and
- changed co-ordinates the way a mouse does, it would drive me crazy.)
- I'm pretty darned hot with a trackball, but correspondingly bad with
- the mouse. Are there more like me out there?
-
- Comments please, boys and girls.
-
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