7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
3:42 p.m.
> I _think_ the older Microsoft "Bus
Mouse" was a quadrature device. ?I was
> able to convert one for use with my NextStation.
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Yes it is, but it has a bizarro round connector with
an orientation
bar across the bottom. One could steal the mating connector from a
Bus Mouse ISA card, or replace the cable. Inside, though, it's like
all of its other quadrature-emitting kin.
The OLDER Microsoft Bus Mouse used a DE9.
The NEWER Microsoft Bus Mouse went to a silly connector.
The change was to get people to stop plugging them into video boards, and
plugging monitors into the bus mouse board. It happened. A lot.
Sometimes carelessness, sometimes the same people who wanted gender
changers to interchange serial and parallel ports.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com