On Tuesday 24 May 2011 at 11:10:15 (GMT+2) Doug
On 05/24/2011 01:19 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
I *hate* mice. I have used a trackball since the first IBM PC. I think the Air Force invented the trackball, before there were any PCs, and they were right.
I dislike mice too. I have only one, for the laptop, because I don't know a trackball small enough to travel with. No, it was not USAF that invented the trackball, but MIT Lincoln Lab, for the SAGE project. They had no buttons, of course, and the balls were genuine billiard balls. They were not a stand-alone gadget, but were set into the console desktop behind which the display screen loomed. The console was for tracking aircraft/missiles -- which is why the trackball is so named to this day, Were it not for this use, surely the device would have some other name, for it doesn't really track anything in the usual PC case, certainly no more than a mouse does. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org