On 06/02/12 19:25, Tony Duell wrote:
Quadrature-output mice are getting hard to find now,
and many of my
machiens depend on them, so I am keeping all I have ;-(.
So I've noticed.
And nobody seems to sell 3-button ball mice any more (well, not now
optical mice are down to the ?5ea price band), so you can't exactly buy
one of those, remove the PS/2 controller and add a 74LS14 to make a
quadrature mouse.
Could you change both parts of the connector (on the
machine and the
mouse/adapter) and use, say, a DE9?
The PS2MouseMini is basically a PS/2 socket, a bit of cable and a 9-pin
mini-DIN plug, with a microcontroller hidden in the plug. There's
nothing you can really do with it...
I'd need an in-line 9W mini-DIN socket to make an adapter cable, or a
chassis-mount socket to mod the A3000 to have a second mouse socket on
one side.
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Phil.
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