IBM 700 Laptop Significance?

At 08:13 PM 6/10/98 -0500, you wrote: Well, that just means it won't be priced outragiouslt on ebay. 8^) Definitely significant, though. I agree in theory, but disagree with your conclusion. (Can't stand the eraser.) [...] Yes, but so does a trackball or trackpad centered below the keyboard (which is one of the main reasons I bought my current laptop.) Best of all, IMO is the tootsie-roll from the Outbound. Mostly, however, I stick to keyboard commands (my one complaint about the MacOS -- you can't pull down menus and such from the keyboard). I strongly feel that anything you want to do should be doable from the keyboard -- if you're willing to remember how. (Example: in MS Word, there is a keyboard command to set bold/underline/etc. If I used Word a lot, and used bold/underline/etc a lot, I would remember it. Instead, for the few times I do that, I don't mind using the mouse. On the other hand, I can do just about anything in Eudora without using a mouse-thingie.) I do use a trackball -- a Logitech Trackman Marble. It's comfortable, accurate, and simply works great. The advantage of a trackball/other over a mouse is that on a mouse, when you click, you are also moving (however slight) the moving part. With a trackball, you can take your thumb completely off the ball before clicking. And I'll shut up now lest I get flames for mumbling off-topic too much. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/