Re: Old IBM mouse on //e?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <11262250.PBPYUASY@news.telusplanet.net>,
Simon Williams  <DON'Temail@luddite.ca> wrote:
>I keep seeing non-Apple mice at thrift stores that seem to have the
>same 9 pin connector as the AppleMice... I know that the extra button(s)
>won't work no matter what, but can the mice function at all on a //e or
>//c???

Those are serial mice.  Theoretically, you could plug it into a serial card
and write a driver for it (Microsoft and Mouse Systems are the two protocols
you're most likely to run across; the source code for Linux ought to provide
some clues as to how both protocols work).  The trick would then be to get
the mouse to work with off-the-shelf software.

IIRC, there was a company that built an interface card that worked with any
serial mouse and made it look the same to the system as an Apple mouse. 
That's all that I can recall about it, though.

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