Re: A86: grphlink error

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Subject: Re: A86: grphlink error
From: Jason Doering <doerinjw@email.uc.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:34:21 -0400
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Dark Ryder wrote:

> UnEven Software wrote:
> > Yes there is!  I remember about 6 months or so back I was in a computer
> > store and they had all those things that would be free after rebates so
> > I stocked up.  One of them was a really crappy generic brand keyboard
> > and in the package was an adapter that went from the odd circle shape
> > plug to a 9 pin.  Maybe if you find one of those (maybe make one from
> > kits at radio shack?  I know you can make your own 9 and 25 pin cables
> > so it might be possible to rig up an adapter somehow).  Then if you can
> > get one of them maybe you can hook your like up in a deformed way.  I
> > personally have like 5 some odd things just to get it to fit.  And even
> > then I had to change some of my BIOS and port settings.  Just fiddle
> > aroudn and maybe you can get it to work.
> >
> > Matt
>
> 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, a mouse only needs four lines: power and ground to the mouse plus a clock
signal and data back .

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> Dark Ryder
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Re: A86: grphlink error

From: "UnEven Software" <uneven14@hotmail.com>

Re: A86: grphlink error

From: Dark Ryder <DarkRyder@cyberdude.com>