Microsoft Serial Mouse
A Microsoft InPort bus mouse adapter, in the form of an 8-bit ISA (XT-bus) card. | |||
| Type | Computer mouse input port | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Production history | |||
| Designer | Microsoft | ||
| Designed | late 1980s | ||
| Produced | 1980s to 2000 | ||
| Superseded by | PS/2 port, USB (2000; 19 years ago) | ||
| General specifications | |||
| External | Yes | ||
| Cable | 9 wires plus shield | ||
| Pins | 9 | ||
| Connector | Mini-DIN-9 | ||
| Data | |||
| Data signal | 30–200 Hz (interrupt mode) with 3 button state signals and quadrature signals for mouse movement | ||
| Pin out | |||
| Female port pin layout from the front | |||
| Pin 1 | SW2 | Mouse button 2 | |
| Pin 2 | SW3 | Mouse button 3 | |
| Pin 3 | GND | Ground | |
| Pin 4 | XB | X position | |
| Pin 5 | YA | Y position | |
| Pin 6 | YB | Y position | |
| Pin 7 | SW1 | Mouse button 1 | |
| Pin 8 | Vcc | +5 V Power | |
| Pin 9 | XA | X position | |
| XA/XB and YA/YB indicate movement and direction based on quadrature phase. | |||
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Microsoft 'Dove Bar' Mouse. Microsoft called one of them the Serial - PS/2 Compatible Mouse and the other, the bus mouse, the InPort™ Mouse. The InPort mouse converted to serial with a block adapter that Microsoft calls Mouse Interface. The block came in a long cube or rectangular shape with a bus port on each end to accomodate the D-ring plug. If you use /fastdetect, and you do not specify a communications port, serial mouse detection is turned off on all communications ports. For example, the switch /fastdetect:com1 will disable detection of serial mice on COM1. The switch /fastdetect:com1,com2 will disable detection of serial mice on COM1 and COM2. Krank formula x driver.
A bus mouse is a variety of PCcomputer mouse which is attached to the computer using a specialized interface (originally, the Microsoft InPort interface developed for Microsoft's original mouse product).
In the late 1980s, mice were not integrated with IBM-compatible personal computers, and the specialized bus interface (implemented via an ISA add-in card) was one of two popular ways to connect a mouse. (Serial interfaces, common on engineering workstations, were the other method.) When the IBM PS/2 was introduced, it included a motherboard mouse interface which was integrated with the keyboard controller (still called the PS/2 mouse interface long after the PS/2 brand was withdrawn); this fairly quickly drove the bus mouse design out of the marketplace.
The bus mouse lived on in the NEC PC-98 family of personal computers in Japan.
See also[edit]
Microsoft Serial Mouse Protocol
External links[edit]
Microsoft Serial Mouse Driver
- 'Mouse Connector'. Archived from the original on 2010-07-31. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
Microsoft Mouse Settings Windows 10
When I bought it, for a measly $25 Canadian, it had Windows 95 installed on it, so I whipped the hard-drive, installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1, as well as AfterDark (which I downloaded from the achieves, heck I got the DOS and Windows from the archives as well).
The problem is, it only has one PS/2 port, and it is dedicated to the keyboard, even when I tried CUTEMOUSE and plugged a PS/2 mouse into the port, all I got was a long series of beeps when I moved it or clicked a mouse button.
A few months ago, I did buy a Microsoft Serial Mouse, it is the 2.0A one.
I am having a lot of trouble finding a driver for Windows 3.1 though.
It has a monochrome screen, so hooking up a mouse is needed so that I can close the screen and use it as a desktop though the use of a CRT monitor and the VGA port.
I could probably solve a lot of problems with Windows 95's plug n play, but this laptop has a 486(DX) I think, may be an SX, the ram is only 20mb, plus the hard disk is 255.3mb. So it may be best to stay with 3.1. So, if I can, I'd think it's best to stick with 3.1,
P.S: Consider this a continuation of this thread from about 3 years ago: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6842
P.P.S: According to this, seems I should be able to upgrade:
System requirements for installing Windows 95:
Personal computer with a 386DX or higher processor (486 recommended)
4 megabytes (MB) of memory (8 MB recommended)
Typical hard disk space required to upgrade to Windows 95: 35-40 MB The actual requirement varies depending on the features you choose to install.
Typical hard disk space required to install Windows 95 on a clean system: 50-55 MB The actual requirement varies depending on the features you choose to install.
One 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive
VGA or higher resolution (256-color SVGA recommended)
I would however, like to stick with 3.1 still, because of the manufacture date, it must've been shipped with 3.1