On 08/02/12 00:28, Liam Proven wrote:
Reading the thread, clearly this is quite hard work to
do and new old
Acorn mice are expensive.
The big problem with the A3000 is the under-keyboard mouse socket. You
need a mouse with a thin cable and a small connector, otherwise you're
stuffed.
As I recall, the A3010 and A3020 either had a larger mouse socket "tray"
to accommodate larger connectors, or had the connector on the panel. I'm
leaning towards the latter, but can't check because the A3010 is in the
garage feeling sorry for itself (only 1MB RAM, the A3000 has 2MB, the
RISC PC has 30-something though I could swear it had 64).
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...
Huh, I thought Iconbar had closed down. ROOL I knew about (I've been
playing with RO6 on a Beagleboard-XM but paying muchos cashola for the C
compiler seems like folly), and I thought the CSA tree had died a death
now most ISPs have canned their Usenet offerings.
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/