Weekend finds : carload of Commodore for $10

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun May 20 19:35:22 2001

On May 20, 8:26, John Foust wrote:
> At 11:19 PM 5/19/01 -0400, Claude.W wrote:
> >I grew up using Commodore equipement at home.
> >1 Sun Mouse (what was that doing in there?)
>
> I seem to remember that a Sun mouse was quite similar
> to an Amiga mouse. In particular, the ones that required
> a reflective mouse pad were quite fashionable.

Are you sure? AFAIK, all Amiga mice are dumb quadrature mice with two
buttons, and their interface consists of 5V power, ground, four quadrature
signals (2 for X and 2 for Y) and two button signals. A Sun mouse has a
proprietary encoded interface that uses three (or four?) wires. I suppose
you could rig one up to a serial port, if you wrote a suitable driver
(might also need a level translator).

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
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