jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles) (11/18/90)
>entropy@mole.ai.mit.edu (Nick Castellano) writes: (nc) >>kawakami@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) writes: (jk) jk>> Overall, the Microsoft Mouse conversion projects are a raw deal in my jk>> opinion. First, you have to find a DB-9 connector that will plug into jk>> the ST port (look and see what I mean) then you have to cut the cable. Not true. I have NOT cut my mouse cable. I can right now, unplug my Microsoft mouse from my ST, and take it over to my wife's PC and plug it into either her serial or parallel mouse port. All my method is, is an "adapter" cable to change the Microsoft mouse connecter to a DB9. nc> One solution to the problem of fitting DB-9's with large housings into nc> the ST is to go to your local electronics store (Radio Shack, for nc> example) and buy a joystick extension cord. Plug one end into the nc> mouse port, and then plug the fat connector into the other end. Make nc> sure the cable you get has all 9 pins connected (the Radio Shack one nc> does.) This also makes it easier to connect/disconnect the mouse and nc> joysticks. Well, I have both the Microsoft mouse and an Gravis Mousestick on my mouse port, so I have a "Mouse Master" on it. Before I had the mousemaster, I just had a "shell-less" DB9 connector plugged into my st's mouse connector. If you build it well enough, it can easily handle a little pressure. Heck, how often do you unplug your mouse? (Not very often, for me at least.) But then again, for a company that stupid enough to stick the mouse/joystick UNDER the bloody keyboard, grrr.... (no smiley here folks) No, I don't work for Atari, Gravis, Microsoft, Practical Solutions. In fact, I don't work for anyone, this week. :-) -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.pdx.com