I have this Kensington Expert Mouse here (c. 1995), and I'm wondering
if I'm missing an external adapter box... it has a Mac-style DIN-8 for
a connector, and inside, I see 3 chips - an LM358 near the DIN-8, an
The 358 could well be used as a level shifter e.g. to RS232 levels.
LP339N (quad comparator?) and a 24-pin Motorola
SC417907P with an
Yes, a quad comparater and a microcontroller.
adjacent 4.00MHz crystal resonator, clearly some sort
of
microcontroller being used as a mouse protocol encoder. One
mysterious part is the optical receiver, an SD6150... it's an
How many of these sensors are there? One, or one for each axis?
[...]
did 10 years ago), so my first thought is... what
protocol might this
speak and am I missing an external adapter to, say, a PS/2-style mouse
My first thought, based on the 8 pin connector, is that it's for a Sun. I
have a trackball with the same connector, which has a label saying 'Sun'
something-or-other stuck on the microntroller.
-tony