Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Bohlman) (10/09/90)
Index Number: 10970
What's the current story on the availability of trackballs to
replace the mice (meese?) used on Sun workstations? The Illinois
TAAD Center did some inquiries a few months ago and heard that
something was under development. If you have any information,
reply here, send netmail to me at 1:115/778
(eric.bohlman@f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org) (I hope I got that right),
or send snailmail to:
Eric Bohlman
TAAD Center
1950 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
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Internet: Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.orgera@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (10/13/90)
Index Number: 11108 In article <14823@bunker.UUCP> Eric.Bohlman@p1.f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org writes: >Index Number: 10970 > >What's the current story on the availability of trackballs to >replace the mice (meese?) used on Sun workstations? The Illinois >TAAD Center did some inquiries a few months ago and heard that >something was under development. Per my earlier message, here's an included message you may find useful: |Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 14:35:30 PDT |From: cjh@Corp.Sun.COM (Connie Brobeck - Education and Research Mktg.) |To: era@ncar.ucar.edu |Subject: track balls | |Hi Ed - |All except the first one on the list (from the UK) are listed in the |Summer Catalyst Catalog. |There's also a comment at the end made by one of our customers in the UK. | |I'll attending the EDUCOM conference next week and will be talking with |folks involved with adaptive technology. I'm trying to find a home |within Sun engineering and marketing for this area! | |Cheers! |Connie | |Track Balls |----------- | |ELECTRONE |Haywood House |High Street Pinner |Middlesex |England |01 429 2433 | |MOUSETRAK model M5 SUN | | | |Evergreen Systems International, Inc. |31336 Via Colinas |Westlake Village, CA 91362 |818/991-7835 |Robert Hulle | |DIAMOND XX Trackball |$365, edu. discount available | | |ITAC Systems, Inc. |3121 Benton Drive |Garland, TX 75042 |800/533-4822 |Peter Whitney | |MOUSE-TRAK |$179 | | |Microspeed, Inc. |44000 Old Warm Springs Blvd. |Fremont, CA 94538 |415/490-1665 |Sales Dept. | |TRAC Trackball |$199, edu. discount available | | |One customer using a trackerball used a chopstick as a pushing device: |"We had one problem with the tracker ball - how to push the smooth |surface with a pointed chopstick. This was overcome very simply - we |wound an elastic band round the end - worked perfectly." -- Ed Arnold * NCAR * POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253(voice) 303-497-1137(fax) * era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * era@ncario.BITNET era@ncar.UUCP * Edward.Arnold@f809.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG