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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] BTC 5100 keyboards
Date: Tue,  6 Feb 2001 00:40:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102060540.AAA22075@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <053601c08fc4$8c6d28e0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>

In article <053601c08fc4$8c6d28e0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> you write:
>> I'm a hardware engineer. The middle button can be fixed in software.
>
>i have sufficient fingers to manipulate three buttons.
>the middle button can be fixed in hardware.

Yeah.  Also, for those of us who have fallen enough times that our
hands don't work all that well anymore, the chording required to make a
2 button mouse work like a 3 button mouse is pretty uncomfortable.
Man, my skateboard used to be pretty evil to me when I was younger.

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-06  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-05 19:23 [9fans] azerty [french] keyboard support Ed Wishart
2001-02-05 21:05 ` [9fans] BTC 5100 keyboards Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-02-05 21:11   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-05 21:34     ` David Johnston
2001-02-05 21:50       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-05 22:10         ` David Johnston
2001-02-05 22:12           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-05 22:26             ` David Johnston
2001-02-05 22:39               ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-06  5:40                 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2001-02-06  9:49                   ` Randolph Fritz
2001-02-05 21:18   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-02-05 23:09   ` dtm
2001-02-06  4:39     ` Jonathan Sergent
2001-02-06 11:10       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-08 22:27         ` Markus Friedl
2001-02-05 21:45 ` [9fans] Re: azerty [french] keyboard support Vincent D Murphy
2001-02-06  5:20 ` [9fans] " Dan Cross

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