WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA ("Frank J. Wancho") (01/30/88)
Gern, Tired of waiting and waiting for the LogiTech mouse to show up on one of our orders in the office, I went out and bought the cheaper of the two Radio Shack mice. It requires the use of their 9-25-pin connector or make up your own - you cannot use the 9-25-pin connector provided under the Zenith 248 contract - different cross-connects. We hooked it into the WYSE-pc, hence the need for the 9-25 in the first place. I haven't tried hooking it directly to the Z248 yet - if that does work, then there's something screwy with my notes on the cross-connects. It also requires the use of their MOUSE.SYS (or MOUSE.COM) and CPANEL.COM (to set the sensitivity). Any RS store should provide you a copy of those three on your disk at no charge and no hassle. (They come on the supplemental GWBASIC/Utilities MSDOS disk for their machines.) It seems to work fine with MS-Windows, but the sensitivity setting is lost on exit. We haven't gotten it to work (yet) with KEY-DRAW. The LOCATEPC program works with it as well, and that, in turn, works with such programs as MICRO-EMACS and BASIC, converting the mouse signals to the corresponding arrow key escape sequences. About the only complaints are that the sensitivity setting is not remembered on reboot, and lifting the mouse off the surface generates a movement signal. --Frank
malpass@LL-VLSI.ARPA (Don Malpass) (02/01/88)
Frank and/or others: I'd appreciate it if somebody out there who has made up the DE-9 to DB-25 adapter for the Radio Shack Mouse ($49 variety) would post the pinout connections. It'll save me finding somebody with a "real" IBM clone who has a doc on the DE-9. I bought the mouse Friday and mailed off my check for Painter's Apprentice at the bargain price. When I have it working I'll post any tidbits about how it all went. don [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa] PS. If Shack really gives out the mouse driver and associated sensitivity program, would there be any impropriety in posting them? It'd save me a trip to the nearest Shack computer store (I'm sure there's one around here someplace - I bought the mouse at a plain vanilla Shack store.) cheers, don
GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (Gern) (02/01/88)
If you plan to use ANY mice on the Z-100, you MUST use a Z-100 mouse driver for that mouse. ANY drivers/software/etc... that came with any mouse for the PC will not function. The only known working proper mouse drivers for the Z-100 are provided by Russ for the MS-Mouse and Logitech mouse. If the mouse you wish to use on the Z-100 is not HARDWARE compatible to MS or Logitech, then you lose. Cheers, Gern -------