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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BUS->Serial Mouse
Keywords: Mouse, Microsoft
Message-ID: <884@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 89 21:54:59 GMT
References: <690@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
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Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <690@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM> neil@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Neil A. Law) writes:
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|I currently have a Microsoft mouse on my AT-clone at home and would like to
|bring it to work to use on my PC with OS/2.  My problem is that it is
|a bus mouse and I'd rather not have to bring the board to and from work to use
|it.

Be warned that a bus mouse and a serial mouse are NOT 100% compatible,
even if you use the same mouse to plug into the computer.  I can't
say for sure what the problem is, because I have yet to solve it.  If
anyone knows more on this, I would appreciate your help.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu