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From: ets7703@cec2.wustl.edu (Silent Stuebe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Serial Mouse -> Bus Mouse ?
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Date: 15 May 91 18:54:37 GMT
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  I currently have your standard mechanical mouse.  Its performance
has been slowly degrading, to the point where my friends consider
it unusable (although I manage to get by :-).  So I'm considering
buying an optical mouse to replace it.
  Here's the problem:  my current mouse is a bus mouse with a 9-pin
circular connector (it plugs into my ATI VGAWonder card), but the
mouse I'm looking at buying is a 9-pin serial mouse.  Is there a
simple cable out there to convert the serial connector into a
circular one?  Actually, if I had the pinouts I'd be tempted to
hack the ends off of both mice and swap them.   <grin evilly>

  Any advice?


--
Eric Stuebe  "I do ordinary things for extraordinary reasons."
CS/EE Student at Washington University in St. Louis
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