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From: marco@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Marco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Microsoft Mice & roller controllers
Message-ID: <BBXy42w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>
Date: 22 Jun 91 22:17:10 GMT
References: <15614@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB
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km456265@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Kevin Melsheimer) writes:

> Does anyone out there know if it is possible to use microsoft compatible
> mice with
> a Atari st?  My mouse recently broke down and I am looking for an inexpensive
> (read REAL CHEAP) way of replacing it.  Is it possible to use an old
> roller-controller
> with the st and can anyone supply the pinout for the mouse port?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Yes it is. In an STReport from about three months back they included the 
instuctions someone had posted on CIS. You might try contacting STR re: 
back issues. It's apparently not too hard a thing to do. I just got a 
Golden Image opto-mechanical and I love it! _Almost_ as good as a 
Microsoft I tried out in the store. Funny that the guy at CIS said the 
same thing after he got a fully optical mouse from Golden Image.

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