Right, the interesting story was toshiba, who constantly would come buy to pretend to buy TrackPoints... then try to learn enough to "fix thiers" ... even tho

Right, the interesting story was toshiba, who constantly would come buy to pretend to buy TrackPoints... then try to learn enough to "fix thiers" ... even though I had published much of the secrets, others never made copies that were good enough to matter. From the beginning, I encouraged people to use mice for constant pointing, and TrackPoint for mixed typing and pointing... one reduction in stress came with the (won over 4 years) introduction of the wrist wrest in the thinkpads of the 770 time frame... notebooks from most companies before that (like the 750, 755, etc) promoted that the notebook should be the size of an A4 piece of paper and that moving the keyboard towards the display was somehow evil... (even though apple had wrist wrests)... consider using buttons from one hand for buttons and the other for pointing , it helps.