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

[Jim Brampton]

yes you can 'Y' connect mouse and kb on a laptop.

FoggyAsEver MacUser 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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