Fairlight-CMI

Hi Chris,

any chance you can list here some of the vendor & model #'s printed on
the bottom of those serial mice that work with the MFX controller
running OS 9.34 on a Series III ?

thanks a lot !

David

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "chaworth012000"
<christopher.haworth@...> wrote:
>
> Mike,
> 
> I have a selection of serial mice that are fine with my MFX 
> controller. The one I have connected is a genuine Microsoft mouse 
> which I paid around £3 for on eBay. Be careful of PS/2 mice that say 
> they are serial port compatible. I have not had much success with 
> these.
> 
> One caveat though; I can only get my mouse to operate correctly if 
> the MFX controller has the rev 11 firmware loaded. If I load the 
> 9.34 firmware, the mouse simply refuses to work. This of course 
> means that when using rev9, there is an incompatibility with the MFX 
> controller for MFX operation, but this has no real impact on CMI 
> functions. It is interesting that rev11 gives you the option to 
> choose the mouse type (set this to MS), whereas rev 9 doesn't.
> 
> Has anyone had any success with using a mouse / MFX controller with 
> rev 9.34?
> 
> Chris.
>