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Stick that cable where the Sun don't shine...
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 03:24:53 CST
Message-Id: <9403060924.AA06651@seraph1.sewanee.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
From: "Karl G. Ulbrich" <ulbrikg0@seraph1.sewanee.edu>
Subject:
>> "I've pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happens," the
>> woman replied. "Foot pedal?" the technician asked. "Yes," the woman
>> said, "this little white foot pedal with the on switch." The "foot
>> pedal," it turned out, was the computer's mouse, a hand-operated device
>> that helps to control the computer's operations.
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>I wonder what kind of computer she's using? I have a Mac and my mouse cable is
>long enough for using it on my desk, but NO WAY would it reach to the floor!
>Maybe this woman substituted a different cable? Which may explain some of her
>trouble...:-)
Try an IBM PS/2. The cord on the keyboard starts out too short, and if you
get the "extender", you can use it from across the room (if you've got
binoculars). The mouse cord? Let's just say you'll never miss a click --
even down the hall for coffee.
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 04:46:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Andy Rooney <andym@deeptht.armory.com>
Message-ID: <9403060446.aa01791@deeptht.armory.com>
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>Message-Id: <m0pcqhj-000BcOC@mercury.mcs.com>
>From: Rose M Carlson <rose@mcs.com>
>Subject:
>To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
>Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 01:23:19 -0600 (CST)
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>> "I've pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happens," the
>> woman replied. "Foot pedal?" the technician asked. "Yes," the woman
>> said, "this little white foot pedal with the on switch." The "foot
>> pedal," it turned out, was the computer's mouse, a hand-operated device
>> that helps to control the computer's operations.
>
>I wonder what kind of computer she's using? I have a Mac and my mouse cable is
>long enough for using it on my desk, but NO WAY would it reach to the floor!
>Maybe this woman substituted a different cable? Which may explain some of her
>trouble...:-)
>
Who told you she had her feet on the floor?
Andymon
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 01:35:40 -0500
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Message-Id: <199403060635.AA10159@world.std.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Stick that cable where the Sun don't shine...
From: Rose M Carlson <rose@mcs.com>
>I wonder what kind of computer she's using? I have a Mac and my mouse cable is
>long enough for using it on my desk, but NO WAY would it reach to the floor!
>Maybe this woman substituted a different cable? Which may explain some of her
>trouble...:-)
Hey, I have a 486 in a tower case and the mouse attaches about 2 1/2
inches above the floor. Thinking that was trying to tell you something
about how to use it would not be completely irrational. That's why PC
mice generally come with 6' cables, so they can reach back to where
your hands generally are (or possibly were designed for people whose
knuckles drag the floor.)
And I won't even note that most workstations' keyboards attach in the
back of the box. Go ahead, tell me again that these things are
designed by people who have ever used one...(ok what shall we go for
here? That it's an FCC regulation regarding RF emissions of keyboard
interface assemblies, or that given the raving success of the millions
of workstations and PC's sold with their plugs in strange places just
what the hell do *I* know about marketing anyhow?)
-Barry Shein
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