tselker

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   by tselker 11y ago

   yes, I don't know why our friends at Lenovo took it out of their lower priced models and , too, please pester Lenovo, there is still so many ways the TrackPoint can be improved, it is worth the small development effort it would take!
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   by tselker 11y ago

   The middle button was added to placate my obsession with a second pointing device. We showed that you could use the middle button to accomplish what all my two TrackPoint prototypes did... they went for it... but ... i am sorry to say ...
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   by tselker 11y ago

   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
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   by tselker 11y ago

   First, its true!, we showed Apple that the trackpoint is at least 20% faster than the trackpad for text editing,,, they said... "yeah but its ibm not apple's branded input device"... apple is still a marketing company At fi
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   by tselker 11y ago

   the cup shaped one was first developed for a a thumb based handle we made for flight traffic controllers. In those days (1991) we thought a cup in a keyboard would be too big. Actually the new placement bellow not between the g and h key (