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ADB tricks: 2nd mouse button, Powerbook trackball
Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-02-22 06:09:48 Stupid ADB Tricks According to this, most ADB mice have a pin on their chip for a second button. He also gets a trackball from a Powerbook working as an external desktop device. And builds a converter for Mac 128k mice to ADB from an old ADB mouse: Plus mice put their interrupt wheel signals directly out on the DB9 port, and the chips in ADB mice are designed to convert interrupt wheel signals to ADB.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-02-26 10:37:09 This is a very neat upgrade, especially for those who might want to use such a mouse on a more modern Mac or PC via an ADB to USB converter (or an older PC with either an ADB to PS/2 or ADB to PC-Serial adapter), because most, if not all, modern OSes are very two-button mouse dependent (even OS X, although the option for a single button still exists). c
Posted by: Macdrone on 2016-03-19 16:59:43 I have not been able to find a square mouse with this ability (spot) like he found. I guess a better picture would be nice but no reply thus far.
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