Think Design Stories: Dr. Ted Selker, Interviewing the man behind TrackPoint
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2023
- Dr. Ted Selker is the extraordinary mind behind TrackPoint and several other technologies that millions of people still enjoy to this day. I'm honoured to have had the opportunity to sit down and discuss various topics with him. Come learn more!
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Special thanks to:
Dr. Ted Selker
The Microsoft Buxton Collection
Computer History Museum
Ken Varga
Archive.org Wayback Machine
US Patent Archives
vintagecomputing.com
Admiral Shark (sharktastica.co.uk/)
TrackPoint image used in the Background and Thumbnail image:
Ashley Pomeroy, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons 
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Thanks for having Dr. Ted Selker! I cannot express enough how thankful for his invention!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
19mins in, and i have to add: not only is the trackpoint great for keyboard oriented tasks & editing, the precision of them allows for very intuitive use in video editing as well, takes a while to adjust, but really not that long, and once you've got it, you don't wanna go back! great video thus far. expect potential edits to this comment if i think of more to say lol!
Glad you're enjoying it so far.
@@LaptopRetrospective indeed i am!
an extra thought: OMG i would love a flight stick with perhaps even a few trackpoints on it: like analogue sticks but mapped for mouse input (eg: headlook in elite dangerous) i gather they can be used as xinput through software as well. might have to dig out the soldering iron and grab a few spare keyboards!
I've used them for doing digital art before
@@SonicBoone56 nice! u must be a trackpoint master!
I have been looking forward to this, you'll bet I'll be taking notes! Thanks a lot for doing this!
I hope you enjoy it and adds to your collection of knowledge on IBM Keyboards and TrackPoints, love your work.
THANK YOU THANK YOU TAHNK YOU!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Have been looking forward to this!!!
Hope you enjoy the video!
Thank you!
You're welcome. I hope you enjoyed the video.
It's amazing how much science has been put into the Trackpoint. Such an amazing interview I've heard in my life.
(I'm also proud typing this comment from my Thinkpad)
Hey Vince, so glad you enjoyed the video, so many amazing stories.
Been waiting for this for awhile!
I hope you enjoy the video. Please share it with those that would also be interested.
Great interview, very interesting man.
Thanks for watching the video Mark and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This video is going to get me using the trackpoint Before I was like "why use this thingy"🥴lol Selker sounds like a very cool guy, thanks for the interview!
That's awesome. The TrackPoint takes a bit of time to master but it's an excellent input device with so many uses.
Awesome chat
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of your top three videos. Very interesting and informative. I only wish he had a proper microphone :-) .
Never seen a black TrackPoint mouse. I wonder if those were ever sold. I do have a grey one, but I found the TrackPoint to be too "stiff" (low-sensitivity), so I never used it.
So glad you enjoyed it! There were quite a few versions of the ScrollPoint mouse in the early days; some prototypes, others commercial releases.
Love the Tokyu Hands story, been there many times. We are also facing lots of resistance and ignorance trying to promote our new and neurologically clever way of interacting with computes.
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RUclips didn't let Patrik post his comment, so check out limbic-life.com/
Just purchased my fourth thinkpad, a T495s and I can't believe I went a whole year without using a track point. I don't need to carry a wireless mouse when I have the trackpoint.
Yep, it still serves a purpose today.