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In article <a1Tz08LN...@enter.net>,
	mste...@enter.net (Mark Stephen) writes:
> My apologies to all who consider this nouveau tech; this peripheral
> isn't much more than ten years old.
> 
> I picked up a Summagraphics Summmasketch Professional drafting board a
> couple of days ago. It has three connectors, two to a power supply and
> one to a nice-looking mouse with four buttons and a ring of copper wire
> around cross-hairs. As far as I can see, there is no way to attach it
> to any computer. It appears, from various scribbles on the board, to
> have been part of a dedicated CAD system. (The mouse has a telephone
> connacker -- is it meant to be connected via a modem????).


	There should be a 25 pin connector which goes from the tablet to the 
serial port (not sure what the tablet end looks like anymore).  The 
'telephone connector' should connect the the tablet itself.  The one I've
used had a stylus with it as well.
	It wasn't dedicated to a cad system:  the cad program would interpret
certain coordinates as certain functions.

> 
> Is there any way for me to use this with my OS/2, Linux, Win95 PC's? If
> not, I'd appreciate a description of the hardware before I part with it
> for the price of postage.

XFree86 has a driver for it, so you can use it under X in OS/2 and Linux.
	
Brian Wheeler
bdwh...@indiana.edu