Re: A86: grphlink error
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Re: A86: grphlink error
> Those don't work! Mice don't need all 9 of the wires in a serial port -
they
> only use 6 (sometimes you can look at a serial mouse's connecter and see
> that 3
> of the holes don't have contacts). The graphlink needs 8 of them, as I
> recall.
> The graphlink _can not_ be used through a PS/2 adapter.
Actually, some macs require that you use the PS/2 port with the graphlink.
If you purchase the $50 set from TI, they give you the converter to the round
6-pin connection as well as the 9 pin converter. I think the graphlink
requires
five or six, not eight, which is what the PS/2 port has.
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