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September 2018
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- thanks but I know my way around. ive been here since 2012. Codldammit (talk) 00:27, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Please restore my edit for pointing stick
I have had an edit for the article for some clarification of the incorrect wording around the Trackpoint, a trademark of IBM. It was introduced as an PC peripheral name, which sold separately as a device works as both mouse and trackball convertible. Then IBM announced ThinkPad 700 with its red button feature named "Trackpoint II" in 1992, as shown in the IBM's release letter below. https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/877/ENUSZG92-0342/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en So the edit I'd made is precisely collect, and please restore your edit made on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pointing_stick&oldid=prev&diff=957965865 so that the article has consistency with those public records. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WithM (talk • contribs) 21:31, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- @WithM: Interesting, feel free to undo my edit and maybe add a source, but also consider this:
- The page right now reads
IBM introduced it commercially in 1992 on its laptops under the name "TrackPoint", patented in 1997.
Making it say "TrackPoint II", while correct, raises the question: what happened to TrackPoint I? Why is it not mentioned? A better way to fix this could be to reword the sentence to convey that TrackPoint is the name of a family of devices, not a particular model. Additional history on TrackPoint versions may have a place lower down in the article. codl (talk) 00:35, 29 January 2021 (UTC)