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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  Apple IIe mouse needed
Message-ID: <9582@reed.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 00:48:53 GMT
References: <8806120259.AA00862@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8806120259.AA00862@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU> halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") writes:
>For a //e, you must add a card. Just the mouse can only be used as a paper 
>weight.

It can also be used to amuse the cat. . . :-)

>					 The card is necessary for, and will
>permit, mouse operation on Apple II, II+, and //e.

It also give the VBL interrupt as talked about in another post.

>						    The AppleMouse II card
>can go into any expansion slot (I/ve never tried 3, but perhaps it would 
>work). Apple recommends slot 4, but that doesn't seem necessary. The 
>MousePaint drawing program (something like MacPaint) comes with the 
>AppleMouse //.

Apple damn well better recomend slot 4.  Mousepaint, when I got it, didn't
recognize my mouse in slot 5!  I hope they fixed it, since the //e now has
the mouse in slot 7!  But that's just inexcusable!

>  |  Bruce P. Halpern  Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca    |

Sean Kamath
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