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First post, by OMORES

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I wanted an universal mouse for my all in one Ryzen 3900x which runs Windows 3.x, NT 3.51/4 and 9x/2000/XP - so I ordered a „Microsoft Cordless Wheel Mouse Serial and PS/2 compatible”.

And, indeed, it works in DOS and every Windows version, including Windows 11 - using PS/2 to serial adapter and a header connected to a X470 motherboard.

They are easy to find online new old stock for 15$...

IntelliPoint tools are working in Windows 3.11 too. I have to try it in Windows 1.0 on the serial port. (Win 1.0 comes only with serial support and usually you have to copy PS/2 driver from Win 2.0 to use a mouse)

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Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

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Very cool ! Thanks for the info !

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Reply 2 of 4, by OMORES

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Horun wrote on 2022-02-13, 21:37:

Very cool ! Thanks for the info !

I wasn't sure how compatible is this PS/2 - serial conversion. But this mouse acts like any other serial mouse... I just tried Windows 1.0 and this Microsoft mouse works with default "windows" driver from 1985...

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Reply 3 of 4, by cyclone3d

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Very cool. I found them. Might get a couple though I really dislike ball mice... but I do need a couple good serial mice.

I ended up ordering 3 Creative branded wireless optical mice for an insanely low price.

I really just want a nice optical or laser mouse that supports serial but doesn't have to have a special gridded mouse pad.

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Reply 4 of 4, by BitWrangler

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I coulda sworn there was an early Microsoft optical of some type, bit picky about it's surfaces, but didn't need a grid, that was serial/PS-2 ... but might have confused it with the wheelmouse that had a ball. Apparently some of the explorer wheelmice of that time have big problems with the wheel turning to goo. Anyway, can't seem to dig out the one I was thinking existed, so maybe wrong on that. While digging around, saw some blurb for the intellimouse optical, with MS claiming it had an image processor in it that worked at 1.5 MIPS.... the IBM PC got about 0.3 MIPS out of the 8088 IIRC 🤣

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