From: Juan-Carlos Lerman (jclerman_at_netzero.net)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 12:59:31 EDT
You got me to comment, Bill, to several suggestions and
past objections by you and everybody else.
1. Glue? Do you mean fresh glue each time? So your finger
would stick to the trackpoint? Not a bad idea. Don't
use Super Glue (tm) or you might need to leave your
finger inside the machine when you close its cover.
2. If the standard cover material did scratch the screens
of some models, it was due to deficient design, thus
irrelevant of surface cover material, be it cat-tongue
or abrasive sand/diamond-powder/metal.
3. I thought of gluing a piece of sandpaper to the top
of worn out covers, thin enough as not to reach the
screen. I didn't yet. I wouldn't like to get loose
sand particles inside the keyboard.
4. My index finger is beginning to show the "occupationally
caused finger dimple shown by users of certain laptops"
which is documented in the "International Journal of
Computer Related Finger Pathologies" on the shelves
of all good Tongue-in-Cheek libraries.
5. Come to think, Bill, we could market, for Halloween,
ThinkPads (IBM(tm)(c)) with a hollow silicone-rubber
shell of a finger glued to the trackpoint. The user
would stick her/his/its finger into the hollow shell!
As a bonus, she/he/it would not need to buy any more
trackpoint caps. It would be a bargain! And it would
prevent the index dimple.
Let's market it as the "Halloween Digit" and use the
profits to fund the annual convention of the TP list,
in Florida, with a cruise in the "thinkpads.com boat."
Such trackpoint finger would be ghostly phosphorescent,
an added bonus to those who type in the dark.
6. There are rumors that the Treasury Department is
considering, sometime in the next millennium, to
adopt trackpoint covers as legal tender.
JC
Bill Morrow wrote:
>
> How about GLUE for the trackpoint tip..?? :-)
>
> Keith Wong wrote:
>
> > --While we're all talking about alternate colors, does anyone know if there is a place
> > that sells different color trackpoint covers? I saw a blue one at either PORT or Road
> > Warriors website. But I don't know if it was a photoshop job just to get peoples
> > attention. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Following on the trackpoint suggestions, maybe a different texture would be good like a
> > the one on the 3m mousepads so us sweaty fingered people wouldn't go slipping and
> > sliding while we're pointing. Something with grooves would help. Hmm maybe 3m could
> > come up with something like a hybrid material. Just a thought.
> >
> > --Keith Wong
> > Honolulu, Hawaii
> >
> > Rob Bell wrote:
> >
> > > Juan-Carlos Lerman wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> A rough diamond trackpoint (sorta like emery boards or sandpaper) would be nice,
> > > >> but then IBM wouldn't make money off all those replacement trackpoints....
> > > >
> > > > In fact, Paul is right, an emery board type of surface made of
> > > > industrial grade
> > > > diamond powder would make an eternal and cleanable cover.
> > >
> > > And probably a raw, bloody stump of a finger after a couple of days of
> > > use! ;-)
>
> --
> Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...
>
> ** Bill Morrow ** :-)
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> use the delete key to avoid unwanted flames,
> any mis-spellings are the fault of the spell checker, poor typing skills or i just don't
> care.. :-)
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