Migrating mouse question

Trackballs

Curt Harms

>I use a Microsmoosh wired trackball and SWMBO uses a Logitech wireless trackball. She got a wireless Logitech keyboard that came with a wireless mouse. The wireless mouse is in the closet, she didn't like it. The advantages of trackballs is they don't require much desk space and they're always in the same spot. I can use either, but new users may take a little while to get used to Trackballs. The trackballs probably aren't good for drawing, but if I need to do much drawing digitizing pads aren't that expensive and I suspect they work better than mice. Sort of like boxers and briefs, I guess.

Curt

Re: Trackballs

Rod Peterson -- Ormond Beach

>I've been a trackball user since about 1969. That's when the FAA started testing a computer tracking system on our radar sets in Jacksonville ARTCC. Used essentially the same type for the next 28 years. They were about 3" in diameter. When GUIs came along for PCs it took me about 1 picosecond to get the largest track ball I could find (Kensington) which is about the size of a billiard ball (about half the size I used at work). I've had to replace them a couple of times over the years—not anything to do with the ball and its sensing mechanism—the doggone microswitches keep breaking. My latest two (still Kensingtons—all of the others are just toys) don't even have wheels for sensing the motion—they use laser sensors.

I like them principally because I'm so used to them, but Curt has the best reason—if flat surfaces are a deadly resource for you as they are for me, a trackball is your answer. Not only do I not have room to swing a cat, I don't have room to move a mouse.

Rod

You can have my trackball whey they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.