11 Dec
1999
11 Dec
'99
7:05 p.m.
Sean Caron wrote:
Yep, the mice that were used in the Apple IIe/IIc
(others as well?) was
exactly the same as that used in the Mac 128/512/Plus, and Lisa (which
I believe was actually just a serial mouse? i might be wrong).
It was an unencoded (quadrature) mouse. Equivalent to (but not pin-compatible
with) an Amiga mouse, or some flavors of "bus mice".
All of the pre-ADB Apple mice are interchangeable, except that the original
Lisa mice used a strange variant on the DB-9 connector with extra tabs on
the female connector, so later Apple mice will not plug into an early Lisa
unless you hack the connector.