farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee@sri-unix.UUCP (08/19/83)
From: Farber <farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee> I just got a Microsoft Mouse at 47 th St Camera in NYC for $139.00. The text editor that came with it looks fine. Nice and cheap. However, when I installed mouse.sys in the config.sys file on my Winnie and rebooted it tried to read drive a and hung the system. Could it be that Microsoft never tested their dos 2. software on a Winnie???!!! Also, anyone know about a rumor that it is trivial to interface that mouse to the IBM Personal Editor? Dave
farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa (11/09/83)
From: Dave Farber <farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa> I have a PC xt with an expansion cabinet, two 10 mb Winnies, a 3Com Ethernet all in the expansion box. I have a Microsoft mouse. It works fine EXCEPT when I try to reboot from the keyboard, the system burps and the light on the C Winnie comes on and will not go off. Take the Mouse out and all is fine!!!! At home I have same system except 1 10 mb Winnie and no Ethernet and no problems. Any ideas. Microsoft has no such configerations and no ideas to date. By the way, I waited 25 minutes on their customer service line with this obnoxious voice telling me it would only be a few minutes. Seems they are a bit undertsfffed. Dave
farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa (11/24/83)
From: Dave Farber <farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa> Its an interupt problem. Switch the jumper on the mouse card from 5 to 2 and all works Well most of the time
dag%ucbarpa%Berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP (11/24/83)
From: dag%ucbarpa@Berkeley (David Allen Gewirtz) According to the Microsoft Mouse documentation, the board is plug and go...just stick it in and it works. In looking at the Microsoft Mouse card, Rev C, there are two jumper locations. The first, called J3 is a soldered jumper with labels of 15, 30, 60, and 120, with the jumper for 30 closed. This is probably for the communications rate and corresponding to 150, 300, 600, and 1200 baud respectively. The board has another jumper with a berg connector on 5. The jumper block is labelled 2,3,4,5. Of course, the Microsoft documentation does not mention the connector or the jumpers at any time in the documentation. I have not yet moved the jumper over. It seems safer to make an attempt to find out from Microsoft what the purpose of the jumpers are. If that doesn't work, then I'll play. -- David Gewirtz
farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa (11/24/83)
From: Dave Farber <farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa> 1. The switch of the jumper from 5 to 2 is as a result of talking with microsoft. 2. If you generate to the xt and then do a DOS backup, guess what. You can RESTORE to any xt anywhere. Dave
dag%ucbarpa%Berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP (11/28/83)
From: dag%ucbarpa@Berkeley (David Allen Gewirtz) I have encountered similar problems with the Microsoft Mouse and Microsoft Word. I have a vanilla IBM PC XT with the Microsoft Mouse card. I have found that I am unable to perform a warm boot after loading the mouse driver from Microsoft. Steve Kirsch's Mouse Systems PC/MOUSE software and mouse driver do not exhibit the warm boot problem and work quite well. I would have expected that the folks who wrote the operating system would have been able to make their mouse work with their own device driver facilities, but... And what happened to quality control? David Gewirtz