Re: GeeThree PS/2 to ADB adapter and the IIGS

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

Scott Alfter wrote:
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> In article <iI6dnf57K5STN6bfRVn-1g@comcast.com>,
> Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
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> > ADB mouse is not hard to find yet. I did a search for
> > "ADB mouse" on eBay and found 95 selections, some with
> > keyboard included. Would be nice to use PS/2 mouses with
> > the IIgs though. Or USB even.
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> Kensington makes a couple of USB/ADB mice; I saw them at Fry's the other
> day.  One of them is optical, while the other is optomechanical.  The only
> downside is that they have only one button (probably not a big deal on the
> IIGS, but even on a Mac, two buttons and a scroll wheel are nice to have).
>
> A working PS/2-to-ADB adapter would definitely be nice.  I have a beige G3
> sharing a keyboard and mouse with my x86 boxen through a PS/2-to-USB adapter,
> but a PS/2-to-ADB adapter would work with my IIGS and Quadra 610 (and might
> work better with the G3 than USB).

I just got one of these--a Kensington "Optical One Button Mouse".

Although it specifies "Mac OS X or later" it worked fine with
my System 7.5 LCIII.

But it won't move the cursor on my IIgs...

-michael

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