sun mice

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Sat May 15 15:43:47 1999

Ok, more information, now that i've spend a half hour sorting mice.

Sun mice are Mouse Systems mice, of course. I have one Model M2 mouse,
which is black, and thus is most likely a mouse for a Sun 2 computer.
I have many Model 3 and 4 mice, which have the brass pins on the side of
the connector. The one sun 3/50 keyboard I have is using a Model 3
with pins, so i'm assuming these are all for use on type 3 keyboards?
The strange thing is, I have several Model M3 mice that dont have those
brass pins on the connector. So i'm wondering if these are also usable
on older sun 2 computers, or if sun is just playing mind games with me..

-Lawrence LeMay

> Is there a sure-fire way to determine if a sun mouse is a type 2 versis
> type 3? It looks like the mice for type 3 have little side-pins on
> the connector, so is it reasonable to assume that mice without this
> feature are for sun-2 series computers?
>
> I figured i'd go through the box of old sun mice at work, since they
> are all so old as to predate any hardware we still have in operation.
> Looks like there are quite a few sun3 mice, possibly a few sun 2.
>
> -Lawrence LeMay
>
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