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In mail (yesterday) you write:

> 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.

The way some companies labelled those, it's hard to tell which was
supposed to be which. If they keyboard *works*, then it *is* plugged
into the keyboard port.

Also, it's possible that it wanted a (somewhat non-standard) Tandy
keyboard. I know my Tandy 1000 TL/2 did.

Did you try loading a mouse driver? And did you run the setup program
to see if the mouse port was enabled? I think the 2500 was one of the
systems where you have to run a program to do setup, it's notstored in
ROM somewhere. If so, you can still get the program frokm the Radio
Shack website, you just have to dig a bit.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
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