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- From: halberst@world.std.com (jerry halberstadt)
- Subject: non-mouse pointer devic
- Message-ID: <Bxwy7r.InH@world.std.com>
- Summary: To avoid discomfort due to working with mouse need other pointer device
- Keywords: mouse, trackball,joystick, glove
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:16:39 GMT
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- Computers have certain protocols for mouse pointing device. Joysticks,
- gloves and other contgrol devices are used in games and input to a game
- port with different protocols. I wold like to be abler to use a good
- quality pointing device and have the computer see it as an ordinary mouse.
- Trackballs are OK but not ideal. Graphics tablets using electromagnetic or
- electrostatic sensors exist which present a mouse-like signal to the computer.
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- A couple of years ago there was a flurry of interest in a Nintendo power
- glove with several people trying to adapt for use with various computers.
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- I am now using a PC (486 33 MHz) with Windows, so the goal is to
- present the PC with some input that looks like a Microsoft Mouse. Or I
- could get a Sun but the principles would be the same.
-
- Does anyone have a working device of this nature? Know how to do such a
- thing?
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- Please reply by email.
-
- Thanks.
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