The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi everyone,
The above cable was part of an eBay QL purchase.
Is it a serial cable?
Would it work for a mouse like this:?


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You can check the mouse connections against this
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/gen/serial/seri ... and%20SER2.
The mouse should be DTE but who knows.

I would think that the top picture is a serial printer cable, probably wired for ser2

The bottom picture looks like a serial mouse. You might get away with joining the two directly together. It would be better to open up the 25 way connectors and work out the connections first.

You would also need a serial mouse driver for the QL before it's likely to be of any use.

Thank you,

Do you think there is a risk in simply trying to plug them together, or could I short something?

I don't know off hand how well RS232 drivers handle tying two outputs together, with one driving high, and one driving low. So you could blow up a driver IC.

Check out this viewtopic.php?t=977 for connectin a serial mouse to a QL

Would anyone have an opinion on whether this mouse would work?

Probably also the following link may help:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3197&hilit=sermouse#p32621

Is there any point in having a mouse on a QL? Is there any software that uses it? The questions are slightly off topic but maybe the topic wouldn't exist if the answer is no point in a mouse.

Anything running under the Pointer Environment uses the mouse.

Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:Anything running under the Pointer Environment uses the mouse

Errr! what is that? Can you point to something about the "Pointer Environment" I could read so I can get the point.