Re: GS Mouse Adjustment?

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
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: On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, William Garber wrote:
:
: > motion of the ball. I highly recommend this trackball,
: > or a similar well-built one. for those who have very
: > limited desk space. Only wish I had one for the IIe.
:
: I also use an orbit trackball on my IIgs... I wonder
: how hard it would be for some *clever hardware person*
: to build an adaptor for ADB or PS2 mice to plug in to
: the IIe mouse card???
: -s

Well, let's look at each one.

ADB devices are slaves to the Host, the computer, so
there would need to be some hefty firmware involved.
A microcontroller could maybe act as the host and go-
between to the mouse card.

PS/2 devices are serial devices, so that would not be
so hard, and also could use a microcontroller as the
intermediary between them.

I believe, and I will probably be corrected here,
that the mouse card accepts TTL signals derived from
resistance settings similar to analog joysticks.

One or both are probably possible, but, who is
willing to take the time to do it?

William Garber
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