I was not aware of a Braille CRT or flat panel, I will see if I can find one
of the web to see what it looks like and how it is used.  But what I really
meant is that I watch my very young children read books sliding their index
finger along under the printed material.  They do not do that as much on the
computer, but I still have to clean their CRT VERY frequently.

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Tom Emerson
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:39 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Ouch

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 9:27 am, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> It must be funny watching you use your finger to read your e-mail.  Your
> screen must be filthy, unless of course you print all your messages. :)

Watch out, Denys -- they DO make "braille" displays for computers [not that
Mike is blind]  That said, I do feel Mike's pain -- I just started playing
an
online RPG the other day, and even though I use a trackball that is far less
fatiguing than a mouse, my thumb started to get a strange quiver after a
while [seems I've played it for 14 hours since saturday evening]

The "just hit delete" mentality of those that press on with OT threads is
reaching the breaking point for a few, I imagine.  Personally, I just about
automatically skip those threads -- my client has a "next unread" button
which works as effectively as "delete", but what I'd rather have is a
"ignore
thread" function that worked with this list [because it reflects through
newsgroups, the "references" header gets broken a LOT]

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