[Ham-Computers] Can a mouse & kbd share a port?

Sun, 05 May 2002 15:38:37 -0500

	Yes you can use the Y adaptor. In fact, some keyboards have the mouse port
built inAt 10:24 AM 5/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I managed to get my hands on a laptop PC a while ago
>from a swap.  It barely runs Windows, but it's good
>enough for the ham shack.  So far, it seems very low
>on radiated spurious junk, which is what I'd hoped for
>from a laptop.
>
>But - with my old, crusty fingers, I would like to use
>an external mouse and keyboard.
>
>The back of the laptop has a DIN connector with an
>icon of a mouse and keyboard.  I can plug either into
>the machine, and it successfully uses it.  Can I use
>both somehow in the same port?  Is there some sort of
>Y-adapter that would allow this?  I thought this was
>essentially a regular serial port dedicated to
>mouse/kbd usage, so you really couldn't share both,
>unless you added a SW patch?
>
>If I can't share the port betwen both, maybe I can
>take advantage of the other serial port?   Besides the
>mouse/kbd port, there's a COM1 port.  Is it possible
>to plug kbd into the mouse/kbd port, and the mouse
>into the COM1 port?
>
>No desire for an external monitor, as I think that's
>what's saving me from the RFI.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>FM
>
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