From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Randolph Fritz Message-ID: References: <053601c08fc4$8c6d28e0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>, <200102060540.AAA22075@augusta.math.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] BTC 5100 keyboards Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:49:52 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5afdfb98-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 05:56:13 GMT, Dan Cross 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