>I can't tell you about the specific card but, yes, you
>definately need a special bus mouse. They are electrically
>incompatible with other mice, including the ps/2
>motherboard mice which have the same connector.
Uhm... that's a bit of an overgeneralization I fear... The mouse on the
Amstrad PC1000 (2000 as well?) series is technically a bus mouse, hooking
itself into the keyboard controller sections of the Amstrad VLSI silicon and
providing both standard mouse functions and triggering cursor keys - the same
as the Amstrad joystick port. However, it's a 9-pin D connector, physically
identical to a 9-pin serial *port* but wired completely differently.
The Amstrad machine predates the PS/2 range by quite a while.
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