"Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla_at_wintermute.org.uk> wrote:
> No, I wasn't suggesting it didn't - just that for some reason all the ones
> I've ever seen (at radio rallies mostly) have been without the touch
> screen....
By the time of the Touchscreen II, lots of us who had deployed 150A/Bs
had concluded that while the 150 wasn't that bad, touch screens were
not all that they were cracked up to be. You had to take a hand off
the keyboard and reach up and touch the screen, and if you had to do
this a lot it resulted in a sort of fatigue that was called "gorilla
arm", and there were usually ways to do what you wanted from the
keyboard (either a function key or tab around some and then press a
function key or Enter). So most users didn't bother with it after the
novelty wore off.
So when it became an extra-cost option we really couldn't see paying
for it.
Besides, who wants a bunch of fingertip-sized smudges on the screen?
-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun Feb 06 2000 - 22:25:10 GMT