I finally got my hands on a Miracle (sans power supply, serial cable, and foot pedal, but all of those are trivially replaced). I have hoped perhaps against hope that the serial comm would be as simple as latching and then reading a series of 1 bit per key. Rio Rancho, NM USA. He original equipment 'Miracle cable' for the IBM-PC version of the Miracle is an Antex AWM E101344 Style 2464 VW-1 serial port cable. Antex no longer makes the cable or any of the other parts for the Miracle Piano Teaching System that it made originally. You can consider making your own serial cable or have one made.
I'm running two computers with WIN98, and the older one uses a serial mouse. I just acquired a Miracle Piano Teaching System, which includes a DB25-to-DB9 cable, for connecting to a mouse port.When the piano keyboard is connected to the computer, I can navigate around with just my computer keyboard, but it would be way easier with the mouse attached. Until my MIDI cable (two DIN5-to-joystick) arrives, could I plug both the mouse and the Miracle cable into the same port via a wye connector?
I recently tried to connect a 'plain' PS2 mouse and a PS2 finger mouse into my other computer via a Y-connector (looks like this: <'>http://www.cyberguys...ages/P617A.jpg>), but it doesn't seem to recognize either of them when they're connected that way. I suspect it wants something a little fancier, like this: <.'>http://www.cyberguys...ges/P118A.jpg>.
I'm hoping serial devices aren't so picky.
Thanks for any advice.
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Doug
I'm running two computers with WIN98, and the older one uses a serial mouse. I just acquired a Miracle Piano Teaching System, which includes a DB25-to-DB9 cable, for connecting to a mouse port.
When the piano keyboard is connected to the computer, I can navigate around with just my computer keyboard, but it would be way easier with the mouse attached. Until my MIDI cable (two DIN5-to-joystick) arrives, could I plug both the mouse and the Miracle cable into the same port via a wye connector?
I recently tried to connect a 'plain' PS2 mouse and a PS2 finger mouse into my other computer via a Y-connector (looks like this: <'>http://www.cyberguys...ages/P617A.jpg>), but it doesn't seem to recognize either of them when they're connected that way. I suspect it wants something a little fancier, like this: <.'>http://www.cyberguys...ges/P118A.jpg>.
I'm hoping serial devices aren't so picky.
Thanks for any advice.
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