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by floren 872 days ago
Or if you have a Mac of that vintage and want to use its mouse on your modern PC, you can use my adapter: https://jfloren.net/b/2022/7/8/0

(I recommend against doing this except as a party trick, because these old mice were never intended to be used on a high-resolution screen)
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endemic 872 days ago
What I would love is to be able to use modern laser mice with vintage PCs -- I have a Mac Plus which is a nightmare to use because those old ball mice are flippin' terrible.
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floren 872 days ago
I think you could fake the quadrature signals pretty easily. When I designed my laser mouse, I initially wanted to be able to reprogram the microcontroller to output USB, PS/2, quadrature, etc. but that got dropped so as to just get it out the door... but I think a USB->quadrature adapter would be pretty doable.
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