Re: Early Mac Mouse --> Apple II Mouse Card ?

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

There is an early Mac Mouse on my Lisa.

Though I'd rather have a Lisa mouse on it.

If someone has a Lisa mouse to trade for a II mouse....

Roy

Dave Althoff Jr wrote:

> Dave Althoff Jr (that's me!) wrote:
>
> : (Oh, and by the way, the Lisa mouse is also compatible with the pre-ADB
> : Apple mice, though the connector is slightly different because it has a
> : squeeze-lock design instead of the thumbscrews.  Pins are the same, though.)
>
> Whoops!  My answer was accurate but incomplete:  While you can use a Lisa
> mouse on a Fat Mac or Mac 128 or original Macintosh or Apple ][ mouse card
> or //c or Lisa, the reverse is not true.  The non-Lisa Apple mice with
> the DE-9 won't plug into the Lisa unless you file the locking tabs off of
> the Lisa mouse port...the connector hood won't fit over the latching
> connector.
>
> Hey, if the thread is going to be pedantic, I ought to get my own
> contribution right!
>
> --Dave Althoff, ][.