Re: Serial Mouse Card & mouse for IIe

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

ST7759@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:

>I recently saw one selling in the Quality Computers catalog, so I called
>them about it.  They told me the cards were unreliable and that they had
>dropped them from their product line.  Too bad, really.  They WERE less
>expensive.  I wonder now, would that mean ALL serial mouse cards, or
>just the brand Quality Computers was selling?

That is a shame. A friend of mine bought one of these things from QC, complete
with mouse, and it seemed to work just fine. We threw as much mouse-driven soft-
ware as we could find at it, including AppleWorks with TimeOut UltraMacros, and
could not fault it. I haven't heard that it has broken down yet, so I presume it
is still working...

It did have four little switches on the card, but only two of them worked. The
other two were non-operational, but the impression was that they would have some
function in a future release. Perhaps that's not to be.

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>Alex Falkenberg
>Southern Illinois University / Carbondale
>st7759@siucvmb.bitnet /or/ st7759.siucvmb.siu.edu (Internet)