Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:02:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. BARTLETT" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Graphical WWW Browser for DOS? In-Reply-To: <2.7.9.OVNK.H4SZXX@belous.munic.msk.su> Message-ID: X-PGP-key: ftp://ftp.smart.net/pub/bartlett/pgpkey X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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). -- Paul Bartlett bartlett AT smart DOT net PGP key info in message headers