Legacy USB support in BIOS makes the mouse look like a ps/2 mouse to the OS. Windows comes with mouse drivers by default, so it will work there. For DOS, you always need to load a mouse driver. Interesting, I take it is a lost cause to find a DOS mouse driver for a modern USB mouse. Unless …

I installed Dos 6.22 and Win 3.11 yesterday and to my surprise my USB mouse works without installing any driver or configuring ports etc... However, it only works in Win 3.11. In DOS mode it does not. I have no idea why it "works out of the box" as the last time I used a mouse I had to install the …

Hello it is easy to find an external diskette drive but I am looking for an external floppy drive and cannot find one.. they are common for commodores and such but for a standard PC... anyone know if they exist?

They do. They were just not called SD back then, but MMC. I have as small cards as 16MB. Interesting, but it seems those are not easily available and prices seem more expensive than SD. I buy my 16GB cards from Amazon DE for 4.99 euro each and free shipping to Belgium. Guess Ill just make a …

Do they exist? I use SDCards for my testbench to quickly swap between operating systems. Got one for 98se, XP, 7 & 10. Now I would like to add some DOS. My smallest SDCards which I use for everything except Win7 & 10 is 16GB. I would only need 100mb or so. I looked around but can't find sdcards that …

Well, yes, it's centronics. However, "centronics" only refers to the plug itself (like DB9 or DB25, too) and doesn't say anything about how the wires are connected to each other. The cable you linked to will fit, but there's no guarantee that the wiring is the same. It may even cause damage to the …

I never used one of these but a computer I recently obtained came with a damaged cable. After asking around what cable this was the answer was "centronics". Now just to be sure can someone verify I would be ordering the correct replacement cable? Attached a screenshot of the current damaged cable. I …