Re: Looking for a mouse


"Marcus Houlden" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:14:01 GMT, Charles Lindsey <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:

In the course of collecting together various goodies to send to
Melanesia,
someone offered me a computer (had Windows 95 on it, which can give some
idea of its age). Sadly, there was no mouse.

No problem, thought I. I have a couple of spare mice which someone else
had donated, but when I tried to plug them in, there was no socket to be
seen of the right (small and circular) shape. Just a 9-pin Centronics
type
which (as was subsequently explained to me) was probably a serial port,
since some early mice plugged into a serial port).

So, has anyone got a spare mouse of that sort of vintage? I could send
the
computer mouseless to Melanesia, but I would imagine that strange mice
would be even harder to obtain there.

I wonder if it might be worth seeing if MCC (or whatever they call
themselves
these days) have any spare ones lying in a cupboard. Alternatively,
dabs.com
have 3 serial or serial compatible mice (all less than £10).


I would think it most likely that the Marylebone Cricket Club has plenty of
mice in its cupboards, especially as the pavilion is over 100 years old.


.

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