CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (05/13/84)
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> Dave, I am trying to reply to the author of the article on "Foot Mice" Cole @ HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS, however, there is no such site in our host-table nor the NIC-data-base. Could you please verify where the article came from and how one can respond? Thanks, Werner. [ here follows the article .....] 8-May-84 02:15:13-CDT,732;000000000000 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 84 15:43 MST From: Kip Cole <KCole@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Subject: Foot Mice To avoid having to remove hands from the keyboard to use a mouse and change modes from mouse to keyboard, why not use a mouse with ones foot. The buttons could be either a heel and/or toe action (or even a chord device with the other foot). The foot-mouse could be used with either left or right foot and hands wouldn't have to leave the keyboard. After all we are four-limbed beings, and organists have been using them all quite satisfactorily for a long time now. Also, unlike most desk-tops, the space around ones feet is usually quite clear from obstruction. Any thoughts.....Kip Cole, Honeywell Australia. -------