zellich@ST-LOUIS-EMH2.ARMY.MIL (Rich Zellich) (06/30/89)
For a while Tymshare (now McDonnell Douglas whatever...) *did* make what they called a "mouse house" - a black box which plugged into the PC's serial port, and into which plugged both a mouse and keyset. Unfortunately, none of their customers (except us, and this was long after our use of NLS/Augment, anyway) ever quite got into using a keyset so they dropped the product. For a while over 1 1/2 years ago, I was corresponding with Raylene Pak of that group, trying to buy one of the leftover mouse-house packages and copies of their Mini-BASE and AugTerm PC packages (Mini-BASE was a slightly stripped-down PC version of the old NLS/Augment BASE editor). For some reason, Ms. Pak stopped answering my messages, and has never returned any phone calls - I'm still hoping to get at least the MiniBASE product, and am still trying to get in touch with someone out there who can sell it to me.