Have you ever wondered how many serial mice you can connect to one PC, or are you one of those boring "normal people"?
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Have you ever wondered how many serial mice you can connect to one PC, or are you one of those boring "normal people"?
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@foone I've always wanted to see >1 cursor on screen when >1 mouse is connected... Or is that just me?
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@kajer yes!
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@foone I’m saddened by all those that feel limited to just a couple serial ports. May I introduce the Digi SCSI Terminal Server, giving you an additional 8 serial ports off your SCSI bus. Of course, you can daisy chain 7 of them per bus. With a few dual port SCSI cards and a tall stack of cash, imagine the possibilities!
https://www.artisantg.com/TestMeasurement/46497-2/Digi-STS-1008-SCSI-Terminal-Server
Back in the day I think I had a 16+ port version of this that I used for remote access to Sun and HP servers via their serial consoles.
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@mgerdts ooh, serial over SCSI!
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I'm thinking about designing a game that uses EIGHT serial ball mice and it's expected to be played by four players simultaneously
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@foone it's disappointing that you can't really buy new ball mice as far as i can tell
sure, it's easy enough to build your own (... actually, is it?) but I was hoping someone'd still be making them
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@whitequark yeah, I was thinking the same.
Then I found 10 unopened ones at ewaste so I'm happy for now! -
Guessing you've got an Digi 8 port serial card hanging around somewhere?
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@ducksauz of course
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