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The same code & technique should be applicable to the original Macintosh mouse, for instance, although you'd need to figure out the correct pinout.



Atari ST and Amiga mice, too. However, the USB to Amiga/Atari mouse adapters available on eBay and elsewhere are made for the opposite use case, connecting a modern USB (or, in some cases, PS/2) mouse to an original Atari ST or Amiga.


and Microsoft Bus Mouse (later inPort) https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2017/10/13/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_mouse build around universal Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8255


Interesting! I actually bought & assembled a PS/2 to Amiga adapter a while back, so I could plug one of my many 3-button Logitech mice into an Amiga.

In my experience, the majority of old mice were not very good, so it's not surprising that most adapters go in the opposite direction (new mouse into old computer).


https://www.bigmessowires.com/usb-wombat/

The person who develops these has some cool blog posts on the development process




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