BreakPoint
Still runs!
@Yamaeda wrote:
@altenbach wrote:
I still had my old Pentium 1 around that I used to learn LabVIEW 4.0. Still starts up fine in Windows 95 and still had LabVIEW 5.1 on it. Serial port mouse, keyboard with that big connector, 1024x768 monitor, etc 3x ISA slots, no USB in any form. 64MB of RAM was enough for anything I threw at it!
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This is a 30+ year old machine that really brings me back to the old times! How time flies!
That brings me back! Serial mouse and DIN-keyboard! My first PC was a P66 with 8Mb!
Now i want to see LV on an Amiga!
Apparently those serial mouses (mice?) are still supported.
Not too long ago we had a NUC with a GPS attached to it's serial port.
It took me while to figure out why sometimes it didn't boot at all. Spooky stuff was happing. The boot loader recognized the GPS input as an attached mouse and went into it's boot menu.
Luckily the boot menu ad an option to disable serial ports at boot time.
25 years ago I had a motherboard that "spoke" over the PC speaker when no keyboard was attached. That was scary too. It sounded like the PC was possessed.
Search LabVIEW like a graph! 
The main problem with these old mice was maintenance. The rollers sensing the ball tended to accumulate a sticky layer of of dust, sweat, hair, and dead skin cells, requiring regular disassembly and cleaning. Yuk!
@altenbach wrote:
The main problem with these old mice was maintenance. The rollers sensing the ball tended to accumulate a sticky layer of of dust, sweat, hair, and dead skin cells, requiring regular disassembly and cleaning. Yuk!
Some clear tape over the ball opening was a classic prank. 🙂
They where hard work.
To prevent (or work around) RSI I first switched hands (from left to right). Eventually I switched to a pen tablet 27 years ago...
This first (Wacom) tablet still works (back to the "Still runs!" topic 😎) , but sadly their new tablets need a new driver, and the old and new driver are not compatible... I wanted a tablet at home too, so 5 years ago I was forced to switch to two new tablets that aren't as good but are more expensive...
We had an interesting input device on our SGI Personal Iris 4D/35 called a "spaceball". It was a fist size sphere on a stick incorporating six(?) axis strain gauges that allowed arbitrary rotation and translation of 3D proteins by twisting and pushing the ball in the desired direction. It did not move at all, and just sensed the desired transformation.
