info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/02/84)
Date: Tue 1 May 84 13:10:01-EDT From: bill coderre <uw-beaver!SE.BC%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA> Subject: MacPaint stuff To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA The following is a compartmentalized flame. Feel free to ignore the parts you don't like.... An Interesting (MacPaint) Hack: If you are in Pencil, and you hold the command key, clicking the mouse button toggles FatBits, and where the pencil on the normal screen is centered in the FatBits screen. Flame: Too bad this doesn't seem to be in the manual. It's an excellent idea, and points out a Great Concept in mousing (no claims of origin or originality...): GET BOTH HANDS BUSY! Allowing the left hand to option-modify the command increases the bandwidth of the keyboard and speeds things up a lot. Daydream: My vision of the ideal workstation keyboard is one with 5 keys on the left side of the keyboard to do single click, double click, constrained click, etc, and a trackball on the right side. This allows lap operation and shortens the hand travel distance. Trackballs can be made to be much more precise, too. It might become possible to do freehand drawing (or at least make it easier). I might (in the far future) hack together a mackeyboard like that. If any computer company wants to bring out a keyboard like that, by all means go ahead with my blessing. I'd like it. ...................................................................bc -------
info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/03/84)
Date: Wed, 2 May 84 11:34:39 edt From: uw-beaver!mark@harvard (Mark Lentczner) To: SE.BC%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA, info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Subject: Re: MacPaint stuff -=- Yes, not very much is documented in that small pamphlet for MacPaint. On the other hand: 1) that pamphlet does not claim to be a manual for MacPaint (read the first two pages), & 2) the feature you found IS documented, along with several other fun things under the Short Cut entry in the Goodies menu when you are in MacPaint. I wonder if, since there is also an Introduction entry in the Goodies menu, Apple never intended to give ANY printed documentation on MacPaint... As many of my friends have proven on my mac- you can just start playing and never read the printed doc. Pretty amazing concept! -mark lentczner electronic music studio harvard university cambridge, ma 02134
info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/03/84)
Date: 2 May 1984 19:21:04-EDT From: uw-beaver!Edward.Tecot@CMU-CS-H Subject: Re: MacPaint Stuff To: utcsrgv!peterr To: microsof!infomac The Option-Pencil hack, as well as many others, is mentioned in the short-cuts section of Goodies. You will notice that there are quite a few useful features mentioned there. I prefer having this information there instead of in the manual, for one reason: I don't want to read the manual! Has anyone actually seen a hard disk for the Mac? I would like to know about their reliability/ease of use/availability. _emt