3 Oct
2010
3 Oct
'10
11:28 a.m.
> Oh, I have many machines with mice. I don;'t
think I have anything that
> uses a normal PC style PS/2 or USB or RS232 mouse, though. Mybe I do, I
> think the Whitechapel Hitech takes an RS232 mouse, but I've not sorted
> that one out yet.
Actually, I bouight a PS/2 mouse a few days ago. It's now a very dead
PS/2 mouse. I will explain the reasons in another message...
*Thinks* Wouldn't an upgraded Archimedes, or some
other recent RISC OS
machine such as an Iyonix, be a better tool for accessing the Internet
than a PC-AT with a 486?
Maybe. I nver really got into RISC OS. The few times I've used it, I
didn't really care for it. And I really like having the source code for
everything I depend on (which is the case with this PC, I have the BIOS
source in the TechRef and of course linux comes with source). I have had
to fix things in the past...
Helpful with text editing, occasionally. I used
MS-Word 4.0 for DOS on
a few PCs with mice but no GUI.
Not really worth the effort, though, to be fair.
I don;t think vi will make use of a mouse...
-tony