Hi JIM.

23-Sep-03 09:02:00, JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to MATT MC_CARTHY


 JH> Not a biggie, but practice where I volunteer is to generally leave
 JH> COM1 for serial mouse or other,  and they set a jumperable
 JH> internal modem for COM2 - IRQ3. They generally disable COM2 in
 JH> SETUP, but I haven't been doing that recently.

 JH> BIR some time back someone posted a fairly good reason for doing
 JH> it your way, with Modem on COM1, but I can't recall what it was.

On older systems com1 is typically a 25 pin connector.
leaving the 9-pin com2 for the mouse and serial mice have been coming with
9 pin connectors for about over 10 years now,

my 13 year old mouse it still working (after a few repairs to the cord and
a stint inside a trackball(tm)) and I haven't replaced the 25 pin plug yet
either :)

 -=> Bye <=-

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