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In mail (today) you write:

> 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?

I know that many 486 boxes had PS/2 ports. and bus mouse ports were a
common add-on card (I have almost a dozen of the cards). 

I'd not be at all surprised to find PS/2 mouse ports on some of the
later 386 systems. *Especially* 386SX ones, as that was a chip that was
used more in "turnkey" systems for home users. A PS/2 mouse port would
fit in with that sort of system as it reduced support problems (an AT
style keyboard jack and a PS/2 mouse port meant that users couldn't
plug the mouse into the wrong jack)

BTW, if there is a built-in PS/2 port, it may well be turned off in the
BIOS setup! 

If there's a bus mouse port or a serial port, you need the right
drivers to get it working.

-- 
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
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