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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 09:24:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Have you ever wondered how many serial mice you can connect to one PC, or are you one of those boring "normal people"?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 09:45:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • kajer

     @kajer yes!

   • kajer (kajer@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 09:45:25 JST kajer

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     @foone I've always wanted to see >1 cursor on screen when >1 mouse is connected... Or is that just me?

   • Mike Gerdts (mgerdts@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 09:57:47 JST Mike Gerdts

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     @foone I’m saddened by all those that feel limited to just a couple serial ports. May I introduce the Digi SCSI Terminal Server, giving you an additional 8 serial ports off your SCSI bus. Of course, you can daisy chain 7 of them per bus. With a few dual port SCSI cards and a tall stack of cash, imagine the possibilities!

     https://www.artisantg.com/TestMeasurement/46497-2/Digi-STS-1008-SCSI-Terminal-Server

     Back in the day I think I had a 16+ port version of this that I used for remote access to Sun and HP servers via their serial consoles.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 09:57:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Mike Gerdts

     @mgerdts ooh, serial over SCSI!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 10:04:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm thinking about designing a game that uses EIGHT serial ball mice and it's expected to be played by four players simultaneously

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 10:10:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark yeah, I was thinking the same.
     Then I found 10 unopened ones at ewaste so I'm happy for now!

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 10:10:29 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     @foone it's disappointing that you can't really buy new ball mice as far as i can tell

     sure, it's easy enough to build your own (... actually, is it?) but I was hoping someone'd still be making them

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 10:27:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ducksauz 🦆

     @ducksauz of course

   • ducksauz 🦆 (ducksauz@snug.town)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 10:27:45 JST ducksauz 🦆

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     @foone

     Guessing you've got an Digi 8 port serial card hanging around somewhere?

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 22:41:15 JST vxo

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     • Mike Gerdts

     @foone @mgerdts That is adorable. UART over SCSI.
     We use a ton of Digi One SP serial over IP devices on an internal network here for controlling remote microwave site antennas and cameras. They make some odd and wonderful interfaces.