[comp.sys.sgi] Trackballs

rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov ("RICHARD P. SIMONIAN") (03/20/90)

Can someone tell me about the availability of trackballs for 4D/20s?

Also: any rumors on the release date of Motif for Personal Iris machines?
What about X11R4?

Rick Simonian
Harris Space Systems Corp.
rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov

mikey@CISCO.NOSC.MIL (MIKE PAWKA) (12/08/90)

>From: James Helman <agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!baroque!jim@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
>Organization: Stanford University
>Subject: Re: Desk sized optical mouse pads.
>
>Trackballs are great for moving and panning, but are difficult (at
>least for me) to control in drawing operations.
>

	The mouse-trak trackball has a "speed change" button which slows the
cursor movement down 4 times for drawing.

						Mike

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