Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!orchard.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!cjkuo From: cjkuo@locus.com (Chengi Jimmy Kuo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse ... Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 91 01:12:01 GMT References: <91052.222414RVY2@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California Lines: 18 writes: >Can you use a serial mouse with a PS/2? A lady in one of our offices has >a PS/2 Model 50Z ... she has ordered a BSR serial mouse. I've only seen >PS/2s with IBM brand mice attached. We have always referred to >these mice a "PS/2 mice". Obviously, I have a lot to learn >about this ... any assistance will be greatly appreciated. >Ron Yarnick RVY2@PSUVM You could use it in the async port but not in the PS/2 pointing device port. The PS/2 pointing device port only understands the handshake protocol of the PS/2 mouse <==> keyboard. Jimmy Kuo (Formerly PS/2 model 30 Pointing Device BIOS) -- cjkuo@locus.com "The correct answer to an either/or question is both!"