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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM modems on AMIGA's
Summary: Mouse port - Serial Port ... could be
Message-ID: <7@maynhbd.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 91 14:40:11 GMT
References: <669038981.1@mmug.edgar.mn.org>
Organization: Maynard Electronics, Inc.
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In article <669038981.1@mmug.edgar.mn.org>, Erik.Funkenbusch@p7.f55.n282.z1.edgar.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
> RR> Basic question!  Will IBM modems work on an AMIGA 2000HD.  I have a friend
> RR> that says his modem plugs into his mouse port on his IBM.  Does this
> 
> heheheheheheheh..... mouse port.... hehheheheheheheh... leave it to an
> IBM'er to call a serial port a mouse port.. heh.. that's funny.  the
> only "mouse ports" on an ibm are bus mice, and modems wouldn't work
> through those.
> 

Don't be so quick to judge the nomenclature diffs.  In fact, more serial
mousies are used in the IBM world than bus mousies (price, no card, et al),
so his friend may be a novice who just knows that his modem plugs into the
same port (or type of port) that his mouse uses.

Also, some newer systems provide a PS/2 compatible mouse port that is a 
serial port as well (Microsoft shipd their new serial mouse with a 9-pin
to PS/2 adapter for these systems).

No flame intended, just sometimes things aren't as straight forward as they 
seem.

Tim Jones			...!uunet!maynhbd!timj
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