Odd Honeywell Mouse

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Aug 31 08:16:17 2000

> Those are similar tot he round mouse (Hawley) that were used for the early
> VAXstations. Those were not PC compatable. I've never seen
> a mouse on a z80 system (most didn't ahve graphics).

At a local electronics trade school where I worked (as a programmer and
teaching digital briefly), we had a bunch of Televideo TS-803 Z-80 based
CP/M workstations; each had a mouse port, we bought only one mouse tho;
it was an early Mouse Systems unit, optical, but requiring the dedicated
optical mouse pad. Worked quite nicely, tho, and I wrote a rudimentary
drawing program for it to create graphic objects for the computer-based
simluation of our digital trainer/breadboard systems.

Graphics capability was 640 x 280, kinda thin vertically, but the ROMs
had line types, fill types, etc.

-doug q
Received on Thu Aug 31 2000 - 08:16:17 BST

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