Try using USB2 mice on a laptop. They disconnect from inactivity and randomly during usage. I went back to the mini-din serial connectors. Sometimes older is MUCH better. Gary - WB4SQ --- n4gi at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wayne <wa1pma at direcway.com> >> > I don't see where > > advancing the > > art is excluding the use of present day hardware. >> If LPT ports were indeed "present day hardware", Mr. Gates would not > have chosen to end support for them in Windoze. >> New laptops do not have any LPT ports. Armageddon is near. >> 73, > Blake N4GI >>>> _______________________________________________ > WriteLog mailing list > WriteLog at contesting.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/writelog > WriteLog on the web: http://www.writelog.com/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250