From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Depraz/Logitech Digimouse manual
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 21:12:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfkF2RiYLzjR-7xK+YHCNufVZORPCpk=m28rOHsArnGdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OAcFOjhPDnrK8gozA7MgW-Gw1hS9_yiNf_bMUw8WjkzgIMFq_7YVm2yUR1uCSko28EBL-PvWcapMdMHhsoShFwTTZCDN6ku8yclEcbU7jNo=@jfloren.net>
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 20:52, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> 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-hardware/74403-whitechapel-mg-1-depraz-mouse-grey-pinout#post904391
-Henry
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 0:51 John Floren
2021-08-05 1:12 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-08-05 3:58 ` John Floren
2021-08-05 4:12 ` ron minnich
2021-08-05 4:14 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-06 16:27 ` John Floren
2021-08-06 16:34 ` ron minnich
2021-08-06 16:52 ` John Floren
2021-08-06 18:33 ` ron minnich
2021-08-06 19:16 ` Andrew Hume
2021-08-06 19:47 ` William Cheswick
[not found] ` <CAKzdPgzZvMUBjGuar9cygk2UCmzzEAXDoGjscKF1CcG_6XAV5A@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-06 21:49 ` John Floren
2021-08-06 21:54 ` Rob Pike
2021-08-06 21:53 ` Rob Pike
2021-08-06 23:33 ` Phil White
2021-08-07 0:24 ` Rob Pike
[not found] ` <CAKzdPgyxM2xD3VKmsN2MXsobVCny5q0RHrqb14a7ObN91sWTaA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-08-07 12:13 ` John Foust via TUHS
2021-08-05 2:10 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-06 23:48 Norman Wilson
2021-08-06 23:57 ` John Cowan
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