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- From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
- Subject: Re: Summary: Trackball vs. mouse
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.051925.10713@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:19:25 GMT
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- Sorry, I forgot to add this. For editing with a trackball, the touch
- typist needs either a keyboard with the "home" positions (f and j keys)
- discernable by touch; or a trackball that can be manipulated while
- keeping one's fingers on the home keys. The latter is a tiny trackball
- placed just below the center of the space bar. Most, unfortunately,
- aren't designed to attach there.
-
- Bruce (Peripatetic Geologist)
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