![]() ![]() ![]() Happily, has come along with a solution for those of you with a need to drive an ancient PC with a serial mouse. Want to run Windows 3.1 on a 386DX? You need a serial mouse. It is unlikely then that you could take a modern USB-only device and an unholy chain of USB-to-PS/2-to-serial adapters, and have it work as a serial mouse. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have contained the software to recognise the interface into which they were plugged, and emulate it accordingly. And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 interface.
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