[vcf-midatlantic] Unscientific informal keyboard poll...

Dean Notarnicola dnotarnicola at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 13:55:59 EST 2018


We have people who are CLI phobic​

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Ian Primus via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Neither. This is a server, right? So what use does a pointing device
> have? You only need a keyboard. And, even then, only for emergencies,
> since under ordinary circumstances, you'd be able to connect to it
> over the network.
>
> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> > We may be getting a proper server for the museum rack. It would replace
> the
> > tablet-serving Pi and have other uses too.
> >
> > To save space, we'll get a combination keyboard/pointing device. But
> which
> > kind of pointing device -- trackpad (laptop style) or trackball?
> >
> > My vote would be trackpad. Curious what you all think.
>



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