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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mouse Stick??
Message-ID: <1640044@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 90 20:30:18 GMT
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>Several years ago I saw a "mouse stick" in a Computer Shopper.  It had
>two cables hooked to it, a 9 pin game plug and a 25 pin serial plug.
>I've been watching Computer Shopper for another one, but no go.

Joysticks use a 15 pin plug and are totally different from a mouse
as far as the PC is concerned. Your mouse stick looks like a serial trackball
with a stick instead of a ball. It is not a joystick if it has 9
and 25 pin plugs. Also Windows does NOT support any joystick. Any
joystick you buy will be for games only. Any mouse you buy may not be
supported by a game as alternative to a joystick.

>I've never tried a track ball.  How picky (sensitive) are they.  Do they
>make them with both plugs?

A trackball is just a mouse flipped on its back. What you need is a mouse 
or mouse driver that allows for variable resolution. At low resolution, 
small moves in the mouse are ignored. Every serial mouse and trackball 
I have ever seen comes with adaptors that allow them to be used with 
either a 9 pin or 25 pin serial port.

			   Danny Low
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