Mail Archives: opendos/2002/10/31/03:34:48
"Paul O. BARTLETT" wrote:
>
> 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).
See http://support.tandy.com/setup.htm for the machine setup program. It
may detect defective hardware (?).
Philippe.
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