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Article #1933Re: DEPCA AA and DEC Mouse/ DEC "bus" mice in general
From: Jeffrey Conrad Powell
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:00
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If I remember correctly, that goes back to the war between IBM and Microsof= t = over their two bus mouse styles. IBM won, but there are still are still alo= t of = the Microsoft InPort mice around. What machine do you have? Why won't it bo= ot? = What NOS are you running? = The only card DEC made with a mouse port was the DEPCA-AA long board. Let me know more; I have piles of old DEPCA cards and Msoft Inport cards. David Longley wrote: > = > I started with a Digital mouse with a PS/2 like connector which isn't of > course PS/2 *or* bus mouse compatible. So I then got hold of a full lengt= h > Digital DEPCA AA network card with mouse port. Unfortunately, it won't bo= ot > in my machine (a standard problem with DEC cards apart from the Turbo 3 i= n > my machines). > = > So - is there such a thing as a DIGITAL network card with mouse port like= > the Turbo 3 or is there a Digital Mouse card which my mouse will work wit= h? > = > (And work under Windows 3.11...and DOS 6.22 . .. just playing safe!). > = > -- > David Longley -- = __________________________________________________________ | Jeffrey C. Powell | | Systems Analyst/Network Manager | | Info Tech Center | | World Learning | | Kipling Road, POB 676 | | Brattleboro (one of the nicest towns in the world!) | | VT 05302-0676 | | Work e-mail: 4936701@mcimail.com | | Home e-mail: JPowell@Sover.net | =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B= =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B= =8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,457ded2a4c4eb464 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10cebf,457ded2a4c4eb464 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cebf,public X-Google-Thread: 1164f8,457ded2a4c4eb464 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164f8,public From: Jeffrey Conrad Powell <JPowell@Sover.Net> Subject: Re: DEPCA AA and DEC Mouse/ DEC "bus" mice in general Date: 1996/02/22 Message-ID: <312C945E.5078@Sover.Net> X-Deja-AN: 140566745 references: <824944250snz@longley.demon.co.uk> to: David@longley.demon.co.uk content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: None you would know of mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro,comp.sys.dec,demon.tech.pc x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K)