7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
7:28 p.m.
On 6 February 2012 01:12, Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone have a spare Acorn mouse, either RISC PC/A5000 (rounded
profile) or Archimedes (angular brick) style?
I can live with broken switches (got a bag of those!) and "it needs a
good clean", but the motion sensors need to work, and it must have a
mouse ball and the cover for the "ball pit".
For anyone who doesn't know what these look like -- they're usually
branded either Logitech or CPC, and have a nine-pin Mini-DIN plug on the
end of the wire. Colour is almost always cream (or murky yellow if
they've been in the sun) or white for the CPC ones.
Basically I need one for my A3000... the blasted PS2Mouse adapter
doesn't fit!
Alternatively if anyone has a chassis-mount 9-pin mini-DIN socket in
their spares box, that'll do just as well (the A3000 has pads on the
motherboard for an 'alternate' mouse port.. I just need the connector)
Reading the thread, clearly this is quite hard work to do and new old
Acorn mice are expensive.
Have you thought of asking in any of the online Acorn communities?
Some are still quite lively. There's the Icon Bar, ROOL, and of course
the news:comp.sys.acorn hierarchy...
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