| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1813.1 | (Gotta use your thumb, though.) | 16BITS::DELBALSO | I (spade) my (dog face) | Thu Mar 19 1992 09:59 | 5 |
| Well, you could always turn your mouse upside down, and, - voila!
:^)
-Jack
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| 1813.2 | | RANGER::LEFEBVRE | Intel Inside (tm) | Thu Mar 19 1992 11:00 | 4 |
| Check with your favorite airline before using a trackball with your
laptop while airborne.
Mark.
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| 1813.3 | ITAC Systems | WHOS01::DECOLA | | Thu Mar 19 1992 11:14 | 12 |
|
ITAC Syatems, Inc.
Garland, Texas 75042
They make a track ball called MOUSE-TRAK (model M5 for DEC), that i,ve
been using for about 3-4 years now with my VAXStation II. It's a three
button affair with a little pad to rest your wrist on. Also has a special
button to temporarily speed up the cursor movement. All in all pretty nice,
and less than $200 (US) if I remember correctly.
-John-
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| 1813.4 | $200?!?! | RUTILE::WYNFORD | Dorn a Loon | Thu Mar 19 1992 11:40 | 13 |
| > They make a track ball called MOUSE-TRAK (model M5 for DEC), that i,ve
>been using for about 3-4 years now with my VAXStation II. It's a three
>button affair with a little pad to rest your wrist on. Also has a special
>button to temporarily speed up the cursor movement. All in all pretty nice,
>and less than $200 (US) if I remember correctly.
Thanks. My first reaction is "<GAG!> 200 smackers for something I can get for
60 in the Mac world..?!?!" Then I thought, wonder how much it'll be over here
in Yerp....
I'm in the wrong business.
Gavin
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| 1813.5 | Still $200 for ITAC unit | MARX::BARFIELD | | Thu Mar 19 1992 16:33 | 5 |
|
The price is correct. I just today received an unsolicited ITAK
advertisement for the Mouse-Trak. Since the phone order number
was 800-533-4822, I called about the DEC unit #M5XDEC. $199
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| 1813.6 | If they allow the computer on board, what difference does it make ? | COMICS::BELL | Hear the softly spoken magic spell | Fri Mar 20 1992 06:06 | 9 |
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Re .2 (Mark)
> Check with your favorite airline before using a trackball with your
> laptop while airborne.
Why ? Don't they like passengers playing with their ... laptops ?
Frank
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| 1813.7 | | RANGER::LEFEBVRE | Intel Inside (tm) | Fri Mar 20 1992 09:00 | 8 |
| American and (I believe) United only allow the use of laptops with
integrated trackballs (eg, Apple PowerBook). The DECpc 320P notebook
features a Logitech "Trackman" trackball that is attached to the side of
the keyboard. The source of the problem for this and other detached
trackballs is radio interference from the cable connecting from the
notebook to the trackball.
Mark.
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| 1813.8 | | CVG::THOMPSON | DCU Board of Directors Candidate | Fri Mar 20 1992 09:55 | 9 |
| > American and (I believe) United only allow the use of laptops with
> integrated trackballs (eg, Apple PowerBook).
I talked to an AA pilot about this. He hadn't heard of the rule
but believes that if it exists that it's an FAA rule not an airline
rule. People wanting to use computers on an airplane should probably
check with the airline first.
Alfred
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| 1813.9 | | SALSA::MOELLER | nonlinear data processing | Fri Mar 20 1992 13:58 | 7 |
| Better check compatibility closely. The ITAK trackball works nicely
with VAXstations, RISC DECstations, and not PC DECstations (for obvious
reasons) and especially not the Personal DECstation 5000-20/25, which
are the first systems to use the access.BUS or serial.BUS, whatever we
call that daisy-chain scheme..
karl
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