Re: Apple II Super Mouse by Shining

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Oct 25, 3:12 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 3:33 PM, magnusfalkirk wrote:
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> > On Oct 25, 2:27 pm, David Schmidt<schmi...@my-deja.com>  wrote:
> >> On 10/25/2011 1:36 PM, magnusfalkirk wrote:
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> >>> On Oct 25, 12:35 pm, magnusfalkirk<dean.pha...@gmail.com>    wrote:
> >>>> Any one ever heard of this mouse for the Apple IIe/IIc? I got it from
> >>>> eBay and was hoping there would be documentation in the box but there
> >>>> was none. It came from B&R Computer Services in San Diego. It's a two
> >>>> button mouse and I'd really like to know more about it.
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> >>>> Thanks in Advance,
> >>>> Dean
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> >>> Tried doing a Google search for Shining Super Mouse and nothing turned
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> >> My guess is... it's a no-name Taiwanese PC clone serial mouse.
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> > You're probably right, David. In fact on the bottom it says made in
> > Taiwan. I was just curious if anyone might know anything about this.
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> Yep, Taiwan was a popular place to make clone equipment of all sorts
> back then.  I don't think this mouse has anything whatever to do with
> Apple... it's just a plain PC serial mouse, modeled on the Microsoft
> mouse of the day.
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> http://www.interfacebus.com/serial-mouse-pinout.htmlhttp://paulbourke.net/dataformats/serialmouse/
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> I could be wrong - the auction said it was tested/working.  It just
> seems implausible that there would be a 2-button mouse for the II...

Well believe it or not it is working with my Apple IIc, I've been
using it with Design Your Own Railroad. I've got a couple other
programs that will use a mouse so I'll bring thos into work, where my
IIc is set up, and see how it works with them.