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I was searching for a tv for pc usb stick and I found that, what it is?, because no one seems to know it.
Thanks in advance
I think its some sort of trackpad?
holy fuck what is that?
some kind of controller imo, that plug looks similar to old joystick ones.
I guess it's from the 80's or 90's, some sort of experimental trackpad mouse if you ask me.
Looks to be made by Ideal; I assume they're a hardware manufacturer.
Plug it into a serial port, restart, and find out!
[QUOTE=rhx123;40445686]Plug it into a serial port, restart, and find out![/QUOTE]
i'll try, while I restart can someone tell me it's full name?
It looks like VGA :v:
Looks like it's either made by Ideal or "Videal", whoever those guys are.
it's some very obscure trackpad for an ancient computer system called "Ideal".
Take it apart to get more info, also post pics.
I got to talk to the owner of that, it was a mouse, but we just don't remember how it was used, but definetlly it didn't have a pen.
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I think I found it's use, maybe it was a button only mouse (for gaming?) the button in the center keeps pressed the click until you click again, the others act normal, maybe it was for older games like quake, that didn't use the mouse pointer thing, it felt really good in my left hand, so it was probably for controlling using the directional arrows and shoot with the other
What you have there is a serial trackpad.
You don't need a stylus or anything to use it, it basically functioned like a modern laptop touchpad.
These serial/PS2 trackpads were popular in the late 80s and early 90s in a time where laptops hadn't standardized the user interface for the mouse/keyboard.
Laptops for the past 15 years or so have used a loosely standardized user interface of a touchpad below the keyboard. But before that when consumer laptops were in their infancy, there was a wide range of methods manufacturers used to add mouse control to their products.
The most common was the garbage "trackball", which could be placed almost anywhere on the laptop, and most of the time it wasn't ergonomic. I've seen trackballs mounted on the front face of the laptop, on the sides, above the keyboard, to the side of it, or even on a proprietary snap-on unit. Regardless where they put it, it was almost always not anywhere close to ergonomic and usually caused frustration and extreme hand strain.
And in addition to the hand strain, the rollers inside the trackball were often extremely fragile and easily broke or wore out quickly in use.
The external touchpad was a way to get around dealing with the idiosyncrasies of the trackball, especially if yours broke.
Similar to this I presume.
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