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Subject:Re: Help Lines&Tech Manuals - Mouse as Foot Pedal From:Fred M Jacobson <fred -at- BOOLE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Mar 1994 09:11:00 PST
Jim Grey writes:
> (Mouse as a foot pedal! Classic!)
My guess is that this person was a sewing-machine user.
On that machine, the thing that is attached to the back
by a wire _is_ a foot pedal.
-Fred
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