What is this, a PC joystick for ANTS?

Опубликовано: 24 Октябрь 2024
на канале: This Does Not Compute

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Suncom Technologies tried to create a compelling alternative for the ordinary computer mouse with its ICONtroller joystick. Problem is, it wasn't really any good.

Sources:
IBM PC photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/phreaki...
"Windows 3.0", The Computer Chronicles, 1990.
Microsoft mouse photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Kensington trackball next to keyboard photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/o_o/825...
Kensington trackball photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Of mice and mobile computers: pointing devices for close quarters," InfoWorld, April 20, 1992.
Siemens 486 laptop photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"Portable pointing devices," PC Magazine, October 15, 1991.
Suncom ICONtroller Laptop photos: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393790301499
"That's Entertainment!", Popular Science, November 1987.
"Traveling Trackballs," PC Magazine, March 30, 1993.
"Controller Provides Mouse and Trackball Functions to Laptops," InfoWorld, December 17, 1990.

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