Jobs for later: new power switch on the monitor, find
or buy an Acorn
mouse, seeing as the PS2MouseMini adapter won't fit in the socket on an
A3000... :-(
Is that a quadrature-output mouse with a 9 pin mini-DIN?
I've found that rewireable mini-DINs are significantly larger tham
moulded ones. Quite often the former won't fit.
There are at elast 3 solutions :
1) RS (used to?) sell cables with a moulded mini-DIN on each end. Cut said
cable in half and wire the bare ends to whatever you are building. I
don't think tye do 9 pin ones though (they did do 8 pin ones when I was
makign serial cables for my Epson PX4/PX8 machines).
2) If you cut the end off the outer cleeve of the mini-DIN plug it'll
often fit. Of coures the resulting plug is more likely to come apart, but
it's OK for things like mice.
3) Remvoe the darn mini-DIN socket fro mthe PCB, fit a DE9 or similar
on the case and wire it up. %deity do I hate mini-DINs...
-tony