First post, by Anonymous Coward
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I know there have been a number of projects for adding PS/2 mouse ports to old PCs, namely the keyboard controller mod, and the various serial to PS/2 converters, but has anyone yet attempted converting a bus mouse port to work with a ps/2 mouse? The KBC mod is nice when it works, but I think there are instances where it fails when the BIOS uses some pins on the KBC for turbo functions. It seems the serial converters are kind of bandwidth starved, which becomes an issue over 640x480. The whole point of the bus mouse was that it provided a lot more resolution, so it seems like an ideal candidate for conversion. I think Inport cards are not all that uncommon, and a lot of ATi VGA cards had the connector too. Are bus mouse controllers hard to come by, or is it possible to build them from scratch?
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