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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: PC Serial Mouse to ST
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.225227.29065@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 22:52:27 GMT
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Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
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In article <5625@feldspar23.UUCP>, dalessio@motcid.UUCP (Mario D'Alessio) writes:
>In talking to someone about the MS serial and bus mice, I found out
>that within the serial mice there is some electronics to convert the
>output of the "rolling sensors" (don't know the official name) to
>the serial data a serial port requires. He said that in order to
>use a serial mouse with the ST, you have to open the mouse and
>reroute the "rolling sensors" output directly out the mouse plug,
>bypassing the electronics.
>
>He is going to help me do the conversion. If I can explain it
>(I am not electronically inclined), I will post instructions
>on the net.
>

Alright!  I have a serial MS mouse that needs this conversion.  Please do   
post a follow-up to this, and I would be more than happy to pay you to 
send me a Polaroid of the mouse insides after the mod.  I could then 
digitize it, or draw up a .PI3 file which shows how to do it (which I 
would then put on atari.archive).  Thanks in advance!
 
-- 
             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "God is a comedian playing to an 
          FSU Computer Science       |      audience too afraid to laugh."
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      email:  boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu  |                  - Voltaire