Mail Archives: opendos/2002/10/30/20:02:12
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> POB> speak? Finally, the mouse port on this tired old box is dead, so I
> POB> would need something that can be controlled with cursor keys.
>
> There are no such besties as "mouse port" - in old machines (386, most
> 486) mouse connected to COM port, in newer machines mouse connected to PS/2
> port. If I right understand, on your machine died one from two COM ports?
>
> PS: For mouse I recommend CuteMouse - http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/ :)
What I meant was this. On the back of the machine are two ports,
one clearly marked Keyboard and the other Mouse. They are shaped
identically (those little round jobs; I am not a hardware specialist).
The machine is an old Tandy 2500SX/20, one of the last machines that
Radio Shack ever sold with the Tandy label.
When I cabled it up the other day, I plugged the keyboard into
Keyboard and the nouse into Mouse. When the boot started, the BIOS
complained about a Keyboard Key Stuck Failure. The boot completed, but
no keyboard. I plugged a different keyboard into the port; same
result. So I switched the plugs, putting the keyboard into the Mouse
port and vice versa. Now at least I have a keyboard, but no mouse.
If I ever come up with the money, I will see if my Pentium-class
machine can be fixed, but in the meantime this old Tandy is the only
functional machine I have to read mail and news with. Since I usually
dial into a Linux shell account, that is OK, but I am feeling the lack
of a graphical web browser. (However, I am remembering how it was with
NDOS running on MS-DOS; not bad really, as I had it customized).
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Paul Bartlett
bartlett AT smart DOT net
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