Left Handed Mouse
I use the mouse left handed. I am really right handed. The first mouse
I ever used was on an Amiga
in the eighties. I had a Commodore 64 for
a
while. I then graduated to an Apple IIe. I
remember that computer the
most. I did some of my first programming on it. Apple IIe machines were
what we had in computer science. No hard drive. No network. I had a
modem on my computers and surfed the BBS world. Every one was a troll
or a punk who wanted to screw with your head. I had a couple of people
help me out.
Then it happened. I got a PC. This was the computer that ended up with
a mouse. I wanted to learn AutoCAD and some other
programs that were
only available on the PC at the time. I remember dealing with High-Mem
one a program by program basis. One package required using one memory
manager and another program did it's own management. It was normal to
have five or six configurations and have a menu at the computer startup
that listed different paths. What a mess.
I used the mouse left handed on that machine. I have almost always done
it. I have to think to use my right hand on the pointer. I tried for
the longest time in Windows to use the left handed mouse buttons, but
it never worked as advertised. Now, I'm in a lab environment and there
must be seventy machines. I'm so glad I got used to just using my
middle finger in stead of my index. I use the
stiles on my palm left handed too. I cannot write left handed, but I
can do that little language for Palm OS that way. I try to shoot left
handed to stay in practice and I use chopsticks left handed. I eat
ambidextrously with a fork and spoon. I've been told I don't cut meat
properly because i don't switch hands after cutting it.
I read somewhere that financial people tend to use the mouse left
handed because they have to used their right hand on the numeric
key-pad. I'm not sure how common this practice may be. I knew someone
who used a detachable numeric keypad left handed for that very reason.
It wasn't me. You can't prove anything.
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