Article 34175 of comp.sys.newton.misc: Path: samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.hk.net!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!clv-oh15-11.ix.netcom.com!user From: nomadict@ix.netcom.com (Tom Unkefer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc Subject: Re: Is the MP2k Left-hander friendly? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 07:27:58 -0500 Organization: Nomadic Technologies Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: clv-oh15-11.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 21 6:29:36 AM CST 1997 In article , David Rajaratnam wrote: > I don't think I've heard anyone ask this question yet. The reason > I ask is that I've found the MP130 to be an extremely well thought out > machine, if you're a right hander. Specifically I have a problem with > the direction of the screen rotation. When you rotate the screen to > landscape mode it's rotated so that you can rest your right hand on the > long edge, which is ideal if you're a right hander, not good if you're > a left hander. > > What annoyed me here was that all of this is a software problem > and since they already did the rotation stuff I can't see that it > would be much more effort to give you the choice of the direction of > rotation. > > What I'd like to know is if the MP2k does allow this? > Yes it does. When you tap the Rotate button on the MP2000 you get options to rotate left or right 90 degrees, or 180 degrees. And when the screen is in one of the landscape orientations and the menu bar is oriented vertically, you can place it on either the left or right side of the screen. So southpaws are covered. Tom Unkefer Nomadic Technologies