6 Jul
2025
6 Jul
'25
6:47 p.m.
Thanks! That's good to know. I'll freely admit that I haven't run a version
of Windows at home since Windows 2000 which was the last version I had a hand in
developing device drivers for (ADSL modems for 3Com). Since the I've often been
forced to use a Windows laptop for work but in most cases, it just only serves to provide
terminal connections to a Linux development machine. I do embedded firmware and the Linux
tools are much better.
- Rod
On Jul 6, 2025, at 5:15 PM, Frank Ventura via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
My fingers prefer to type CONTROL ESCAPE and then type "Regedit". Useful when
running Windows Server in a VM on my Mac Book. That blog post reminds me of something that
happened about 20 years ago, circa 2003. I had a Freedom Scientific Braille and Speak Note
taker with a RS232 cable connected to a physical serial DB9 port on my Win 2k desktop
computer. With the Braille and Speak in terminal mode and serial keys enabled in Windows I
could type in Braille on the B&S and get alphanumeric serial input in Windows. Oddly
enough though with this working I sometimes got errant input if I had other devices
enabled like the USB to serial connection to my Windows Mobile PDA. What I wouldn’t give
to have a working B&S (or similar) today.
Frank
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Subject: [cctalk] Re: Another 780 backplane story
On Jul 6, 2025, at 1:55 PM, ben via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I think you can replace that portion of the procedure by starting your search for
"regedit" in the search portion of the taskbar. My work laptop is the only
Windows machine I have available and it's been updated to Windows 11. Barring that, I
think regedit can also be found in File Explorer at C:\Windows\regedit.exe. However you
find it, I believe you'll need to right click it and choose "Run as
administrator". The rest of the procedure should be the same. I've done this on
4 or 5 Windows machines in our lab at work so far and so far it's worked for all of
them.
It amazes me that Windows still retains the serial mouse support. I don't think
I've seen an actual serial mouse in more than 20 years.
- Rod
On 2025-07-06 11:28 a.m., Rod Bartlett via cctalk
wrote:
Here's the directions since it was somewhat non-intuitive. I created a Confluence
page at work but everyone asks me to disable it each time the problem crops up.
https://paulhutch.blog/2019/06/24/disable-serial-mouse-detection/
Reads post, I
have no Windows key on my keyboard, can I use Any other key?
Ben. With a real IBM keyboard.