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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dirk Hente who wrote (301)	5/2/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Multi Mice - two cursors Dirk, we've discussed this several months ago. There is an adapter that allows two mice, but one cursor. Win '98 offers plug and play two mice but only one cursor. I really want to find a way to have two mice and two cursors. Can I do this by installing some hardware in one of my slots and assigning another com port to this second mouse/hardware? Something like having the second mouse in Com 2 and reassigning my modem to another com port? If this is possible, what hardware would I purchase and what would be the best com port configuration? To all: I'm nearing my completion of a Trading Machine. I've been in awe of the falling prices of computers and the new advancements in the horizons. I've come to believe, for my purposes, a computer is a disposable item. I'm going to go more of the budget route to save costs. Then the extra money will go to another budget computer in the future. (A computer store is going to build me a PII 266 with all name brand parts for $800. Warrenty is 3 years on parts, lifetime warranty on service.) They charge $1999 for a PII 400/100 bus 64 SDRAM, DVD2, name brand guts and peripherals. Same warranty. For multimonitor cards, I'm also going budget minded. The STB and Appian cards are $1300. For only $650 I can get a Colorgraphics with 16 SGRAM. Ram dac is only 200 but I can live with that in thinking about how much I'm saving. Once again, I'm thinking that building a computer for the future is futile. I'm building a disposable one to last me 3 years, then will buy another one in 3 years. Any thoughts? S.W.