[Coco] Mouse

[Joel Ewy]

Rogelio Perea wrote:
> No amount of internal rewiring will allow a serial mouse to be used with a
> CoCo....[snip]
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> Diecom produced The Rat graphics design package and along with it an adapter
> box to allow it to use a serial mouse - I don't have any more details than
> that, never used it - maybe someone else has some insight on that mouse
> adapter.
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Actually, FWIW, I think the Diecom adapter was for an Amiga-compatible 
mouse rather than a serial mouse.  I believe an Amiga mouse sends the 
quadrature optical encoder signals straight to the computer instead of 
having an on-board controller watch the encoders and send packets of 
serial data.

JCE
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Has anyone used a PC serial mouse and rewired it to work on the Coco? I
>> have
>> 2 original Coco joysticks that are too damaged to work, but the plug and
>> the
>> wires are still in great shape. Can it be spliced onto the PC mouse and
>> made
>> to work?
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