Since I lack a
mouse for mine, can I put in a plea that whoever does
adopt this system consider selling / trading me the mouse? 10 years ago
I have -- somewhere -- an IBM optical mouse. I know nothing about it
other than it's 3-button, and IIRC the cable ends in a DE9 connector.
Inside is a microcontroller (8051). and not a lot else. I think I once
traced out some of the wiring back to the DE9 and came to the conclusion
tha the microntroller ran between the -ve supply line and something 5V
positiove wrt that and there was a transsitor buffer to make the output
RS232-like.
<fx : ARD looking on shelf of computer bits>
Amazingly I've found it. The label on the bottom says :
IBM
MOD 5277-1
MODEL MOUSE
MFD BY SUMMAGRAPHICS CORP
FAIRFIELD CT USA
It also says FCC IDD : BY78SDMOUSE
I am not going to type out the FCC notice or attempt to reprocude the
barcode, but under the barcode is the stirg 71B35021819109
The connector is a DE9 with pins 1 and 3 mising
Philip, if you think this will work on your 6150, you are welcome to try
it. I don;'t have the mouse pad (and as I said it's optical, from the
time when you needed a special mouse pad for optical mice), and it is, of
course, untested..
Thanks for the offer, Tony, but that isn't a 6150 mouse. I think it is
the IBM mouse that went with some of their PC-cum-graphics-terminal
boxes. 5271 was the 3270-PC, 5272 the rather nice monitor that went
with it; and I think the nice graphics versions ere higher in the 527X
numbers. In the same way 537X were some AT based ones with even nicer
monitors and graphics coprocessors in separate boxes. I remember some
of those had optical mice with the strange shiny mouse mats. I am
guessing from the number that 5277 is the mouse from this series.
There seems to have been some list discussion on the 6150 mouse. What I
remember is that it had a ball not an optical motion sensor; and the
thing that makes it really difficult to find is the connector, which was
a strange 6-pin one (rectangular, two rows of pins like a ribbon cable
header, but I think the pitch was smaller - 2mm? - socket on cable, plug
on motherboard)
FWIW I think 3-button mice transmit the middle button as a simultaneous
press of the other two, so that ought to work on a 6150.
Philip.