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Ben Myers

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Jan 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/22/96
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Ragnar,

You would be far ahead of the game by simply connecting the Microsoft
serial mouse to one of the serial ports on the pack of the PS/2.
It'll work just fine there, and both Microsoft's and Logitech's mouse
drivers detect serial, PS/2 or bus mice very nicely (under DOS, that
is.)

Best regards,
Ben Myers

rag...@fys.uio.no (Ragnar Holm) wrote:

>Can I connect a Microsoft serial mouse (with 9 pin DSUB) to the PS2 mouse
>port (6 pin miniDIN)? I've got the necessary plugs to make an adapter, but I
>don't know which pins to connect.
>Can anyone help?

>Ragnar Holm


aolsz

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Jan 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/22/96
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Ragnar Holm (rag...@fys.uio.no) wrote:
: Can I connect a Microsoft serial mouse (with 9 pin DSUB) to the PS2 mouse
: port (6 pin miniDIN)? I've got the necessary plugs to make an adapter, but I
: don't know which pins to connect.
: Can anyone help?
:
My experience is that the adapters are not worth the trouble.

You can of course use the serial mouse on the PS2 serial port.

Ragnar Holm

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Jan 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/22/96
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Can I connect a Microsoft serial mouse (with 9 pin DSUB) to the PS2 mouse
port (6 pin miniDIN)? I've got the necessary plugs to make an adapter, but I
don't know which pins to connect.
Can anyone help?

Ragnar Holm


Brian Lee

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Jan 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/23/96
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rag...@fys.uio.no (Ragnar Holm) wrote:

>Can I connect a Microsoft serial mouse (with 9 pin DSUB) to the PS2 mouse
>port (6 pin miniDIN)? I've got the necessary plugs to make an adapter, but I
>don't know which pins to connect.

If it's Microsoft Serial mouse, it won't work even with adapter.
if it's Microsoft Serial-PS/2 mouse, it will work
Look at the bottom of the mouse, it must say Serial-PS/2
(or ps/2-serial?)
Those have "extra circuitry" inside which makes them work both ways.

--
"And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good--
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?" -Pirsig

Rob Ruggenberg

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Jan 24, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/24/96
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bl...@share.net (Brian Lee) wrote:
>rag...@fys.uio.no (Ragnar Holm) wrote:

>>Can I connect a Microsoft serial mouse (with 9 pin DSUB) to the PS2 mouse
>>port (6 pin miniDIN)? I've got the necessary plugs to make an adapter, but I
>>don't know which pins to connect.

>If it's Microsoft Serial mouse, it won't work even with adapter.
>if it's Microsoft Serial-PS/2 mouse, it will work
>Look at the bottom of the mouse, it must say Serial-PS/2
> (or ps/2-serial?)
>Those have "extra circuitry" inside which makes them work both ways.

In my case it was even worse: I tried a microsoft serial mouse with
an adapter on my Thinkpad 720C (a PS/2 machine). It blew up my
motherboard. I don't know whether this might happen on other MCA-
machines, but beware...! The serial mouse was a new one, but
without the PS/2 mark on it.

Rob


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