From: DALLEMAGNE Philippe To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <3DC0EBA4.4C10EB5@csem.ch> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:36:52 +0100 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Graphical WWW Browser for DOS? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com "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.