5 Aug
2021
5 Aug
'21
12:51 a.m.
Having just been given a Depraz mouse, I thought it would be fun to get it working on my
modern computer. Since the DE9 connector is male rather than female as you usually see
with serial mice, and given its age, I speculate that it might have a custom protocol; in
any rate, plugging it into a USB-serial converter and and firing up picocom has given me
nothing.
Does anyone have a copy of a manual for it, or more information on how to interface with
it? If I knew how it was wired and what the protocol looked like, I expect I could make an
adapter pretty trivially using a microcontroller.
Thanks,
john