New subject: Free DEC CI cables

31 Aug 2000

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From: Douglas Quebbeman &lt;dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com&gt;
To: &#39;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&#39; &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: RE: Odd Honeywell Mouse

...
 > Those are similar tot he round mouse (Hawley) that
were used for the early
...
   VAXstations. 
Those were not PC compatable.  I've never seen
 a mouse on a z80 system (most didn't ahve graphics). 
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.

Allison