Interface - On the buttons, mice and more.

<b>Interface</b> - On the buttons, mice and more.

     (C) Bumagin Andrew.

         (STEEL RAT SOFTWARE / CPU)

     (C) Music: Phantom Lord / Accept Corp.



    On the buttons, mice, and much more


                   Mice were crying, injected,

                   But continued to have

                                  cactus.

                   (From the folklore of Fido)



     They say that the advertising - the motor trade. Moya's 
wife claims that advertising will worsen the financial 
situation of our family. 

     It all started with what to me at
hands hit the price - list of hardware firms
SCORPION.I here, having read these leaflets,
I decided to order a controller IBM-compatible keyboard and 
mouse. Actually, to this time I was already

Kempston-Mouse from CREATE SOFT LAB with passive arm "Search" 
button, but I chegonibud abruptly. Generally, I ordered this 
controller and ProfPZU for your SCORP 'and (ProfPZU is a 
separate issue). We had to wait very long (more than a month, 
and this at a distance of 10-hour journey by train, imagine how 
much is the premise of SCORPION, for example, in Novosibirsk). 
And so, Finally, it happened! I eagerly ran

the post office and ... "Your parcel came from
COD 22000r. "Those are here you are,
I also have sent money and for the order and
postage (by the way nehily, already
15%), what then? I had to lay out, not
send the same back after such a long wait.

     Home by printing out parcel, there is almost emptied of 
pounds of advertising pamphlets and books describing the 
controller SMUC, some programmers and, in addition, the catalog 
of CD-ROM for PC!? The only truly valuable acquisition - this 
scheme SCORPION ZS256 TURBO + (I'm on it lead up a "left" 
computer "to mind"). And amidst all this pile of paper got lost 
a little handkerchief, for which the whole this fuss and 
erupted. 

     PC - keyboard and mouse I had
were, so I immediately started to connect the controller. From 
how to connect I read that "if your computer has circuits that 
produce signal WAIT, then the decoupling of internal and 
external signals should be: to disconnect the output 24 of the 
processor from all other schemes (except for systemic size 
sockets!) and solder in the gap diode type KD522, plus the 24 
conclusion Z80, to minus all other schemes, as well as solder 
the resistor from 5 to 15 ohms between terminal 24 Z80 and +5 V 
(Note: This requires dorobotka and Scorpion ZS256 TURBO ...)" 

     I soldered a diode and resistor, stuck
controller to the system connector and ... A
nothing more was not, as a keyboard
did not want to work, but only worked
mouse.

     I jumped from his Scorpion 'a more
several hours, but never got a positive result, spat on and all
went to call Peter. In the repair department
I was told that I zapakoval fee and
sent back, saying "there is always
percentage of marriage. "

     Returning home, I wrote a letter
which described in detail how the fault
Boards and specifications
your computer. And at the end of his message asked me not to 
send unwanted advertising (pay each time for 20-30

"Pieces" - it's expensive). Since one of my
friend ordered a SCORPION 'e some
disk with the program and get a bargain
the same bunch of ads (that's Estimate,
disc costed 32000 p!). Is packed with all
this packet, sent back to Peter.
Have already waited a little less mesyatsa.I here, in one
beautiful day, I get a notice that
"In your name and provide valuable parcel ...
with COD 22000 p ... "Words
there remained some interjections. Go to
mail, receive packet, unpack,
No advertising, controller board and more
nothing! No response to any greeting. For that
This once stripped?

     And here, by my conservative estimate,
Controller I costed 167,000 against
96,000 of these in the price list! Yes, there are
Why poskrebsti head.

     Actually, the thing is good, especially
for those who work a lot with the text:
complete Russification of the keyboard,
service buttons with text, trigger a pause WAIT, Ctrl-Alt-Del, 
display, keyboard layout selection for five different text 
editors, etc. 

     About the mouse you want to mention one
drawback: unlike CREATE SOFT
MOUSE does not work middle mouse button,
so that the fans of UFO-2-broken off, the soldiers will deploy 
key 'S', rather than the average pedal myshi.Hotya except UFO,

I use the middle mouse button longer
nowhere to be seen.

     This article, I typed in a new Chicony 101 - quite 
convenient. So, anyone have any interesting thoughts on this

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