Re: a USB for the Apple II smoke test

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

The Wizard of Oz wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:47:49 -0700, pilgrimer wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I wonder,
> > could it be the baud rate on the SSC?  could it be something else? could
> > it be God never  intended this sort of thing?  Do I really wanna take
> > this one any further?  Not really, but it was interesting.
>
>
> 	I think you may be on to something. I seem to recall the early days of
> the mouse on the PC there used to be problems with baud rates. As I recall
> anything above 9600 was fine. It might be cool to see the GS with two
> mice. Since the PC mice are serial devices (the "S" in USB) I see no
> reason why it wouldn't work in theory. Perhaps the problem with the SSC
> could be related to it allowing one connection instead of the three
> available on the backplate. Since there were mice available which didn't
> use the ADB connector, it seems logical there would be drivers for them in
> GSOS.

Actually, USB has about as much in common with RS-232 as a
giraffe has with a grapefruit.

The fact that it delivered power without burning anything
out is miracle enough.  That it pulsed a data line randomly
to produce the illusion of data is just luck.

-michael

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