3 Oct
2010
3 Oct
'10
7:54 a.m.
On 1 October 2010 22:11, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Ahh, fair enough.
*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?
You use a
mouse? I'd have thought that was a bit modern for you, Tony!
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.
Plenty of machines with quadrature mice : PERQ 3A, Whitechapel MG1,
Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga. etc. And if you include Trackballs,
I've got several image display iuntis for the PDP11 that use them. And HP-HIL mince (HP Integral, HP150-II, etc).
And the Kriz mouse on the PERQ 2s (but that's more of a graphics tablet,
I supose)
The PC I am typing this on doesn't ahve a mouse, though. WHat use would
it be on an MDA (text only) display?
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.
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