At a local
electronics trade school where I worked (as a programmer and
teaching digital briefly), we had a bunch of Televideo TS-803 Z-80 based
CP/M workstations; each had a mouse port, we bought only one mouse tho;
it was an early Mouse Systems unit, optical, but requiring the dedicated
optical mouse pad. Worked quite nicely, tho, and I wrote a rudimentary
drawing program for it to create graphic objects for the computer-based
simluation of our digital trainer/breadboard systems.
Never said it was never done. I said *most* didnt'. I have a triad of
Visual 1050s that have a 6502+32k for graphics so I know some did.
It was however quite rare for those to have a mouse and software
that was mouse aware.
Oh, sure, and I didn't mean to contradict you, I just wanted to provide a
contrasting data point. I passed on a TS-803 on E-Bay recently, as I know
where I can get one locally... they were really nice as CP/M machines go.
regards,
-doug q