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Subject:Re: Ergonomic Input Device Suggestions.... From:"Gottlieb, Lynn" <Lynn -dot- Gottlieb -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:37:54 -0800
I'm a lefty with small hands, so Microsoft mice are utter torture. Most
trackball devices aren't much better; my hands are just too small to use
them comfortably. And I'm a multi-platform (Mac and Windows) user.
I discovered a great solution--I bought a Kensington Orbit trackball.
It looks like an upside-down pregnant teardrop. It's great. There are
two buttons and a small trackball. I can re-program the buttons for a
lefty and the footprint is comfortable for my small hands. It comes in
Mac and DOS/Windows versions too, so I have one on each machine.
They're not too expensive either.
> ----------
> From: Karen Schriver[SMTP:ks0e+ -at- ANDREW -dot- CMU -dot- EDU]
> Reply To: Karen Schriver
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 1:12 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Ergonomic Input Device Suggestions....
>
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> I agree with Russell Kilday about the Kensington Turbo Mouse. I have
> used it since 1991 and love it. I used to get terrible pains in my
> hands
> with a regular mouse. The Turbo mouse allows you to not use your hands
> for so many "hand-intensive tasks" such as scrolling through the
> TECH-WR
> digest. Now I can simply let click the button once and it scrolls
> automatically, then when something I like catches my eye, I roll the
> ball over the text and it stops. Just scrolling for 5 minutes can be
> torture on hands that use the keyboard all day. The Turbo Mouse's
> design prevents me from holding the device tightly, something I could
> not break myself of doing with a regular mouse; the longer I wrote,
> the
> more I would grip. I haven't tried a wrist pad, but it sounds like a
> good idea.
>
> good luck!
>
> karen schriver
> KSA, Document Design and Research
>
> >Hey there everyone,
> >
> >Lately I have been experiencing some discomfort when using the mouse.
> The
> >pain has been mainly in the center of my hand when I click the
> buttons. I
> >also get knots in my neck and shoulders even though I look straight
> at the
> >monitor.
>
> >Thanks,
> >Jennifer
>
> Excerpts from mail: 28-Jan-98 TECHWR-L Digest - 26 Jan 19.. by
> Automatic
> processor -at- LIST
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:25:36 -0800
> > From: Russell Kilday-Hick <rkilhick -at- SFSU -dot- EDU>
> > Subject: Re: Ergonomic Input Device Suggestions....
> >
> > Hi Jennifer--
> > I used to get pain in my wrist and arm using a regular mouse. Bad
> posture
> > and all, since I switched over to the Kensington Turbo Mouse (more
> than a
> > year ago) I can work all day with no problems and the four buttons
> come in
> > handy too. I am at my computer all day, every day (even sometimes at
> home
> > on the weekend). BTW--I use a wrist pad as well.
> >
> > Disclaimer: Sorry for the promotional tone of this note; I do not
> have
> > stock in the company.
> >
> >
> >
>
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