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Optical Serial Mouse

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First post, by rick12373

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:31

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Would this work on a 486?

http://www.hdetron.com/optical-9-pin-serial-mouse.html

There is also this ball mouse, but it would be nicer to have an optical one.

http://www.hdetron.com/legacy-ball-9-pin-seri … _kaAp3rEALw_wcB

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 1 of 2, by keropi

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:35

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keep in mind that the optical one needs that special mousepad to work - can't say I am a fan of it personally
maybe keep an eye for matze79's serial->ps2 mouse adapter so you can use a proper optical ps2 one

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Reply 2 of 2, by rick12373

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:37

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I have one of matze79's adapters already, although I have not got a power supply for it yet, I was just curious about those other ones.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

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