On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> Can anyone point me at a tracker-ball that would be a plug-in replacement
> for the mouse on my Type 4 keyboard?

There's a reference to such a trackball device at

| http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref5.html
|
| "A Sun-compatible trackball is available from Kalleen's Computer
| Products @ 1-800-262-1010 (PN CHP RM400-515, $94.32)."

Might at least provide a starting point...

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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:59:24 +0000, Chris Lawrence wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
>> Can anyone point me at a tracker-ball that would be a plug-in replacement
>> for the mouse on my Type 4 keyboard?
>
>There's a reference to such a trackball device at
>
>| http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref5.html
>|
>| "A Sun-compatible trackball is available from Kalleen's Computer
>| Products @ 1-800-262-1010 (PN CHP RM400-515, $94.32)."
>
>Might at least provide a starting point...

IIRC Sun trackballs are huge and clunky - we tried all (2) of them some
years back as one employee had bad RSI - One of them was either handed
with lots of programmable buttons. Trouble was the ball was the size of
a tennis ball at least. He ended up with the PS/2 adaptor and a
logitech trackball. The three buttons on that worked fine.

Regards

Dave Saville

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In <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311192157340.672@holodeck3.holosys .wlan> Chris Lawrence <news03@holosys.co.uk.invalid> writes:

>There's a reference to such a trackball device at

>| http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref5.html
>|
>| "A Sun-compatible trackball is available from Kalleen's Computer
>| Products @ 1-800-262-1010 (PN CHP RM400-515, $94.32)."

But look at the date on that - 1995 :-( .

The best alternative I have come across so far is from ITAC Systems
(Mouse-Trak), but prices in the UK are upwards of $200. I would have to
think carefully before spending that much.

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In comp.sys.sun.wanted Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> In <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311192157340.672@holodeck3.holosys .wlan> Chris Lawrence <news03@holosys.co.uk.invalid> writes:

>>There's a reference to such a trackball device at

>>| http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref5.html
>>|
>>| "A Sun-compatible trackball is available from Kalleen's Computer
>>| Products @ 1-800-262-1010 (PN CHP RM400-515, $94.32)."

> But look at the date on that - 1995 :-( .

> The best alternative I have come across so far is from ITAC Systems
> (Mouse-Trak), but prices in the UK are upwards of $200. I would have to
> think carefully before spending that much.

I have some which go by the name S-Trac, made by someone called
MicroSpeed in Fremont, CA. They work fine, and it looks like you
could get one from them at <http://www.microspeed.com/prodindex.html>.


They list at $129.00, though.

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