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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:44:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: some pcvt quirks
Message-ID:  <199507110644.IAA05066@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9507110225.AA29333@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 10, 95 08:25:48 pm

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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > Also, anyone know where I can get a PC-compatible sun-style optical mouse?
> 
> Both Mouse Systems and Data General sell these.

I've been succesfully using DG's optical mice (the PCB is labelled
``Mouse Systems'' though) on PeeCee's for several years now.  (Our
customers used to get Wacom tablets, so they didn't need the mice.)
They come with this terrible Mini-DIN plug, all i had to do was
cutting it off and solder a regular DB-9 plug in place.

If someone needs the wire assignments:

	yellow		- 2
	orange		- 3
	red		- 4
	black/shield	- 5
	brown		- 7

I've heard that several optical mice used on Suns are actually 3-wire
only (the RS-232 versions are 5-wire), so i doubt they will be PC
compatible.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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