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Date: 23 Feb 88 15:39:04 GMT
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From: koziarzw@radc-lonex.arpa
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Subject:	R-S Mouse
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Message:

This item originally appeared as a comment on a GERN message, I have updated
the RS Mouse information originally provided.  I originally failed to specify
that the Color Computer Mouse is NOT THE RIGHT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is not absolutely necessary to spend $100 + bucks for a 'real'
(EXPENSIVE) Bill Gates mouse.  The $49.95 Radio Shack SERIAL mouse
works fine with Painter's Apprentice!!  You will need to either acquire
a MicroSoft nine pin to 25 pin mouse cable or cut off the RS mouse's tail
and add a db25 connector of your own (I chose the cut and solder approach)
I include the following for your information --

DB-9           DB-25(Male)        RS-mouse wire color

pin 2           pin 3                 red
pin 3           pin 2                 orange
pin 4           pin 20                yellow
pin 5           pin 7                 green    (Logic Ground)
pin 7           pin 4                 brown

				      shield -- I connected this to Z-100
						chassis ground

Using the first two columns, a duplicate of the MicroSoft mouse converter
cable can be built.  The other columns will allow adventurous souls to
do it right, no extra connectors in my cables...
Hope I have conveyed this information effectively.

There is another R-S mouse which costs $49.95 -- the Color Computer Mouse
that is the wrong one!!!!! The part number for the correct one is:

		25-1040 SERIAL MOUSE
      and it is in the 1988 Tandy Computer Products Catalog



Cheers,

Walter A. Koziarz

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