[rescue] The red mouse and other tails

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Tue Mar 12 16:36:24 CDT 2013


On 12 Mar 2013, at 17:30, "shatle" <shatle at nfldinet.com> wrote:

>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [rescue] The red mouse and
> other tails
> From: Mark Kahrs
> Date: Tue, March 12, 2013 4:15 pm
> To:
> rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>
> The (famous) red mouse is the DePraz mouse:
> http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/350/1795
>
> FWIW, I
> have a copy of the AT&T 5620's owner's manual as well as the
> manual
> (with
> schematics) from Teletype. I am planning on donating these to the
> Computer
> History Museum where they can be scanned and available to all.
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Yup - that's the one. I
> actually like the ergonomics and the mechanical
> action of the mouse buttons.

It looks like a really nice mouse.

> The DMD5620 FAQ online has the pinouts of the DB-9 connector for this
> guy.
> Apparently the AT&T 6xx and 7xx terminals that took a mouse used
> the more
> generic Logitec serial mice.

I think I might have a generic Logitec serial mouse.  3-button.  Somehow my
aunt had it laying around...

>
> We had some 605's and 7-somethings when we had
> AT&T gear, but not the
> layers capable variants.
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