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From: lyourk@ihlpf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT&T PC Mouse
Message-ID: <2454@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 11:53:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 11:53:55 1987
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References: <394@m10ux.UUCP> In article <8468@shemp.UCLA.EDU>, roizen@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Xref: utgpu comp.sys.att:1228 comp.sys.ibm.pc:7575

> A Logitech sales rep. told me that they manufacture the AT&T mouse sold for
> 6300 and 6300+ which has 2 buttons (instead of 3 on their standard mice).
> She also told me that Logitech wouldn't sell this mouse directly to the public
> and I can purchase it only from the AT&T. What she couldn't answer though and
> I still need to know was whether the 3-button Logitech mouse (which can be 
> bought at half the price of AT&T's mouse) can be soldered to a connector that 
> plugs into the model 302 keyboard of the 6300+ machine and will it then
> function like the 2-button AT&T mouse. 

I purchased a Logitech Bus (three button) mouse for my 6300+.  I
have my system unit setting on the floor and would need an
extension cable if I wanted to use the mouse with the bus card.
The connector on the mouse matches the one on the AT&T keyboard
so (just for fun,) I plugged the mouse into the keyboard.
Guess what?  It worked.  BUT if you want to use most software
with it, you will somehow have to purchase the AT&T mouse driver.
The exception to this is Microsoft Windows and software packages
which use the windowing environment directly.  If you know of a
different mouse.com driver for the AT&T keyboard mouse you could
use it instead.

With the bus mouse, I have more options which may help me with
making software compatible with the mouse if I ever get an
extension cable.  The mouse came with lots of software, most of
it works with the AT&T mouse driver.  The exceptions are the
Logitech mouse drivers and software which reconfigures them.

Maybe the new Logitech Serial mouse (with the DB9 connector for
the AT) will work the same way.

Disclaimer:  These are not the official views of AT&T or Logitech.
	     Use any of this information at your own risk.

Loran Yourk
AT&T Network Systems
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