Old Microsoft stuff...

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Wed Jun 17 12:18:07 1998

>>Another microsoft product which I've not seen mentioned here yet was, of
>>course, the Microsoft mouse for PCs (and later those Microsoft keyboards)

> Those bus mice? I worked on a friend's machine that had one: A Xerox XT
> class running Windows 1.0. 640x400x2 mode I believe. Oh yeah, they were
> called Inport Bus mice, ran off their own 8-bit card. Not a bad mouse for
> it's time.

The BUS Mouse was ... err IS ... a very useful device - I
used to put them in my PCs (even Pentium) until the build
PS/2 mouse became standard. Serial mice need serial ports,
and a PC still has only a few :(

Servus
Hans

--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 12:18:07 BST

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