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- From: polly@leland.Stanford.EDU (polly siegel)
- Subject: Re: Context switch on pen... idea
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.225053.21968@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Aug20.212708.22109@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:50:53 GMT
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- > Mice have buttons. Why can't a pen have a button?
- > I am picturing the sort of button you use on a ball point pen
- >at the top of the pen to click the ink thingie into and out of writing
- >position.
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- For whatever it's worth, the Momenta pen had such a button, so apparently
- someone also thought it was a good idea... Its button was on the side of the
- pen, though, which is probably easier to use than having a button on the
- top. So your forefinger would naturally rest on the button while you were
- using the pen.
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- - polly
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- Polly Siegel
- Stanford University
- (polly@grover.stanford.edu)
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