Printing a handheld PC

Question is....will that mouse work with a sigmarion 3? :-D

We had some retro laptops with the trackball like an AT&T (can't recall the OEM maker). Smaller trackballs seemed clunky and not great for tracking but some were better than others; they all seemed to require frequent disassembly & cleaning.

Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse was a bigger external unit that one clamped to the side of a laptop in the early 1990s; that was pretty good. Kensington sold a huge desktop track ball c.2000; that was great but all but ergonomics.

We also had some old IBM & Toshiba laptops with the pointing stick. I always liked this idea. However, usage required some concentration, particularly for moving the cursor a long way. IMHO, it didn't seem great for RSI.

I have a Toshiba Satellite 2595CDS that has one of the little nubs in the middle of the keyboard. I really like that thing for general navigation, especially on the go. Only real drawback is the drift it sometimes experiences. Of course it doesn't work well for games, but you can just plug in a USB mouse. I've never had a trackball mouse but I love the concept.

I never seen a Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse before. It really gets conneted to the expansion port. Very interesting!

I used to have a Toshiba Portege 650CT I bought in Akihabara for 6000 JPY used. I used to run an Apache web server on it. I remember it being accessed and you could tell it was being used because of the HDD noise.

Edited by stingraze 2023-10-19 1:35 AM

Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse



Edited by AximUser 2023-10-19 3:27 PM

This post on Stack Exchange is interesting too.

Which pointing devices were used by early laptop computers?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4861/which-pointi...

Haha I remember those days. That is a cool laptop- has a very similar design aesthetic to the Satellite I have.