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    23-Jul-90  23:08:13
Sb: #5470-#Keyboard/trackball
Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)

Jim;

re: $79 keyboard/trackball

  Forget it!  It's chintzy... too light, didn't like the keyboard layout/feel,
and the trackball is too close to the keypad and edge of the board.  No room
for ham-hands like mine.

  I did play with one trackball for a while tho, and I really liked it.  It was
a 3 button that had buttons #1 and #2 wrapping around the ball dlmost the full
length of the pad, and button #3, the drag-lock centered at the top.
  Very easy to use and well designed ergonomically.  Good control too, using
variable cpi.  It looked as though the faster yousmoved the ball, the more cpi
that is fed to the driver - coarse control; and the slower you moved it, the
less cpi.  If I remember, it was something like 50-360 cpi.

..Jim       O_o    AACK!
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