Odd Honeywell Mouse

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Aug 31 18:23:11 2000

----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org' <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: RE: Odd Honeywell Mouse


>> 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.


Never said it was never done. I said *most* didnt'. I have a triad of
Visual 1050s that have a 6502+32k for graphics so I know some did.
It was however quite rare for those to have a mouse and software
that was mouse aware.

Allison
Received on Thu Aug 31 2000 - 18:23:11 BST