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From: nxh@mead.UUCP (Nobuya Higashiyama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Mice - what do I want?
Message-ID: <1161@meaddata.mead.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 90 13:09:12 GMT
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In article <1249900002@S55.Prime.COM> CUMMINGS@S55.Prime.COM writes:
>I recently bought a new mouse for my PC.  I went with a Mouse Systems Optical
>mouse, bus version.  Surprise!  Their "bus" mouse is their serial mouse with
>a dedicated serial port (not using COM1, COM2, COM3, or COM4).  For the $10
>extra I spent on the "bus" version, the serial port was well worth it!

I too have the Mouse Systems Optical bus mouse, and I like it a lot.  Having
used it for a while, I find it difficult to go back to mechanical or
opto-mechanical mouse anymore.  No reliability problems.  CUMMINGS@S55.Prime.COM
reports that he paid about $100 for it; I was able to pick it up for less than
$80.  You might want to shop around for the best price.

>            The hooks to use the libraries is in the mouse driver already
>(I have no problem running EGA/VGA programs that support the MS mouse
>with the MSM mouse driver), you just can't write your own programs without
>the extra package.

I'd like to add one caveat here.  I've had no compatibility problems with it
except for one: MS Windows 3.0 (did you guess?).  When the bus board is used,
the current version of the driver (it can be downloaded from Mouse Systems BBS)
does not seem to work with 386-enhanced mode properly (works OK with standard
mode, thank goodness).  They'll probably get around to fixing this soon.

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