5 Aug
2021
5 Aug
'21
10:12 a.m.
John, you can see that "stick a bird on it" -> "stick an arduino on
it" -> "stick a pi on it" has gone as you once predicted :-)
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 8:59 PM John Floren <john(a)jfloren.net> wrote:
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On Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 at 6:12 PM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 20:52, John Floren
<john(a)jfloren.net> wrote:
This looks great, thank you!
john Having just been given a Depraz mouse, I thought
it would be fun to get it working on my modern computer. Since the DE9 connector is male
rather than female as you usually see with serial mice, and given its age, I speculate
that it might have a custom protocol; in any rate, plugging it into a USB-serial converter
and and firing up picocom has given me nothing.
Does anyone have a copy of a manual for it, or more information on how to interface with
it? If I knew how it was wired and what the protocol looked like, I expect I could make an
adapter pretty trivially using a microcontroller.
This might be of some help?
https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/technical-support/vintage-computer-hardwa…
-Henry