rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) (03/26/91)
grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) writes: [responding to complaint about Mouseman incompatible with C9] > >This mouse is sold as either Left-Handed or Right-Handed and is angled > >to the left or right depending on which flavor you get. > Those were a pretty bad idea, IMHO. The C9 was pretty good as it was. Not having seen them, I can't say whether the "hand fit" works out, but at least they figured out that if they're gonna make an asymmetric mouse, they need two models! > BTW, if you need something that works and works great get the Logitech > Trackman...once you get used to it you will never want to use an upside > down trackball (IE a mouse...) again... I'd love to be able to use a Trackman, but it's useless to me! I'm left- handed, and there is NO way to adapt the thing to use with the left hand. If you're right-handed, it's great. (I have just enough right-hand dex- terity to be able to judge it.) But don't buy one for a machine shared among people, nor if equipment has to be moved around in your office. I can't imagine how Logitech ignored left-handed people on the Trackman design. I wonder, now that they've got two flavors of this Mouseman, whether they're finally gonna wake up and make a left-handed Trackman. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) (04/01/91)
rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes: >> Those were a pretty bad idea, IMHO. The C9 was pretty good as it was. >Not having seen them, I can't say whether the "hand fit" works out, but at >least they figured out that if they're gonna make an asymmetric mouse, they >need two models! I guess that is a point in their favor, even though it was an overall blunder. :-} >I'd love to be able to use a Trackman, but it's useless to me! I'm left- >handed, and there is NO way to adapt the thing to use with the left hand. The manual talks about a way (turning it sideways so the buttons are to the left) but it looked pretty awkward... >design. I wonder, now that they've got two flavors of this Mouseman, >whether they're finally gonna wake up and make a left-handed Trackman. It would make sense, so they probably won't... -- \ Grant DeLorean (grant@bluemoon) {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!grant / "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."-C.A. Beard