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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!dgp.toronto.edu!ematias
  2. Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
  3. From: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias)
  4. Subject: Re: Portable pointing devices
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug27.103003.26725@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  6. Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
  7. References: <1992Aug25.120232.28315@cis.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug25.120838.28667@cis.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug25.225853.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Aug27.111446.722@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
  8. Date: 27 Aug 92 14:30:03 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Aug27.111446.722@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
  13. adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone) writes:
  14. >
  15. >I own a portable trackman, and Iwould cheerfully replace my workstation mouse with
  16. >it standing on its end.
  17.  
  18. That's very interesting, though I don't understand why you would want to do this.
  19. A mouse is a better all-around input device than a trackball.  Why would you want
  20. to replace it with something that's worse?
  21.  
  22. Edgar
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