Bus mouse
 A Microsoft InPort bus mouse adapter, in the form of an 8-bit ISA (XT-bus) card. | |||
| Type | Computer mouse input port | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Production history | |||
| Designer | Microsoft | ||
| Designed | late 1980s | ||
| Produced | 1980s to 2000 | ||
| Superseded by | PS/2 connector, USB (2000) | ||
| General specifications | |||
| External | Yes | ||
| Pins | 9 | ||
| Data | |||
| Data signal | 3 button state signals and quadrature signals for mouse movement | ||
| Pin out | |||
| Pin 1 | SW 2 | Mouse button 2 | |
| Pin 2 | SW 3 | Mouse button 3 | |
| Pin 3 | GND | Ground | |
| Pin 4 | XB | X position | |
| Pin 5 | YA | Y position | |
| Pin 6 | YB | Y position | |
| Pin 7 | SW1 | Mouse button 1 | |
| Pin 8 | +5 V | Power | |
| Pin 9 | XA | X position | |
| XA/XB and YA/YB indicate movement and direction based on quadrature phase. | |||
A bus mouse is a variety of PC computer mouse which is attached to the computer using a specialized interface (originally, the Microsoft InPort interface developed for Microsoft's original mouse product).
In the late 1980s, mouses were not integrated with IBM-compatible personal computers, and the specialized bus interface (implemented via an ISA add-in card) was one of two popular ways to connect a mouse. (Serial interfaces, common on engineering workstations, were the other method.) When the IBM PS/2 was introduced, it included a motherboard mouse interface which was integrated with the keyboard controller (still called the PS/2 mouse interface long after the PS/2 brand was withdrawn); this fairly quickly drove the bus mouse design out of the marketplace.
The bus mouse lived on in the NEC PC-98 family of personal computers in Japan.
See also
External links
- Mouse Connector at the Wayback Machine (archived July 31, 2010)