Odd Honeywell Mouse

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sun Sep 3 07:56:57 2000

> >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.

Oh, sure, and I didn't mean to contradict you, I just wanted to provide a
contrasting data point. I passed on a TS-803 on E-Bay recently, as I know
where I can get one locally... they were really nice as CP/M machines go.

regards,
-doug q
Received on Sun Sep 03 2000 - 07:56:57 BST