6 Feb
2000
6 Feb
'00
2:25 p.m.
"Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk> wrote:
No, I wasn't suggesting it didn't - just that
for some reason all the ones
I've ever seen (at radio rallies mostly) have been without the touch
screen....
By the time of the Touchscreen II, lots of us who had deployed 150A/Bs
had concluded that while the 150 wasn't that bad, touch screens were
not all that they were cracked up to be. You had to take a hand off
the keyboard and reach up and touch the screen, and if you had to do
this a lot it resulted in a sort of fatigue that was called "gorilla
arm", and there were usually ways to do what you wanted from the
keyboard (either a function key or tab around some and then press a
function key or Enter). So most users didn't bother with it after the
novelty wore off.
So when it became an extra-cost option we really couldn't see paying
for it.
Besides, who wants a bunch of fingertip-sized smudges on the screen?
-Frank McConnell