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- From: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: Portable pointing devices
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.111446.722@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 11:14:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.120232.28315@cis.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug25.120838.28667@cis.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug25.225853.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug25.225853.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, baer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
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- |> In article <1992Aug25.120838.28667@cis.ohio-state.edu>, grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:
- |> >
- |> > I'd like to conduct an informal survey to see what sorts of portable
- |> > pointing devices notebook owners are using. I'll summarize responses
- |> > sent to me in email or we can just fire the discussion up here.
- |> >
- |> > I looked at the new Logitech Trackman (not the portable) and it seems
- |> > really slick. While it doesn't pretend to be a portable device, it
- |> > seems like it would serve as long as you had some desk space. I
- |> > haven't played with the portable version yet nor with the Microsoft
- |> > portable (which seems incredibly expensive).
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- I own a portable trackman, and Iwould cheerfully replace my workstation mouse with
- it standing on its end. Actually I have occasionally suffered from the sticking
- too, but the ergonmoics are superb (except that every so often Iforget and start
- moving the thing around, wondering why the pointer doesn't go too :-) )
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- Adrian
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