Re: [9fans] BTC 5100 keyboards

[Randolph Fritz <randolph@panix.com>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 05:56:13 GMT, Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>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.
>

Multi-button mice and pucks are notorious RSI hazards.  A company I may
not name did an RSI study of its graphics pucks.  Being a responsible
firm, they quickly redesigned the pucks--desiring to avoid lawsuits,
they quickly buried the study.

Personally, I need to use the Plan 9 mouse with caution.

Randolph