John Foust skrev:
>At 12:35 AM 5/21/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>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).
>I remember that Dale Luck, one of the original Amiga engineers,
>sold a mirror-pad mouse, and I thought I remember him telling
>me it was actually a Sun-compatible mouse. Of course, this
>would mean compatible with Suns as of 1986 or earlier, and
>not today's.
Could anyone familiar with older (pre-3?) Suns confirm this?
>I'll readily accept that my memory of this could be faulty.
>Perhaps a better question would be "Circa 1986, which off-the-shelf
>mouse technologies were compatible with the Amiga mouse?"
None without rewiring. With rewiring, one could use most any mouse available
back then. PC bus mice, Atari mice, pre-ADB Apple mice, C= 1351 mice, etc.
>I have an original GfxBase optical mouse on my A2000. The bottom
>says "Mouse Systems - Manufactured by MSC Technologies, Fremont,
>CA, etc. Model M4. MSC 40215-001/B S/N MSC CZ097242".
Mouse systems... Where have I heard that name? Didn't they make Sun mice? Yes,
it seems so, I've got one here in a box of odd mice. It's a shame I've got no
Sun to match. =)
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