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- From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: IBM PS2/700 ThinkPad mouse controller.
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:46:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.064609.12667@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Nov6.183213.19469@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Nov7.170112.18517@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Nov7.210824.16496@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
- >I just saw the 700C at the IBM warehouse in Toronto this pm and thought it
- >very nice. But I wonder about the mouse controller. It seems to work well
- >(although I could only use it in the DOS shell - they didn't have OS/2 or
- >Windows installed, but only had a demo of Geoworks running! Can you imagine
- >that? It makes you wonder about IBM....). My concern was whether one might
- >have trouble with hitting the mouse controller often when typing a "b".
- >Has anyone any experience with this?
- >
- >Carl Riehm
- >
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- A friend of mine, who works for Toronto Hydro, told me that at last weeks
- presentation, they showed the monochrome version. It was first shown with
- Windows and than OS/2. The mouse controller, according to him, was a very
- nice idea. They will be ordering a few....
-
- Mark K.
- E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
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