And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port.

A mouse that plugs into the serial port on a PC. Serial mice used to be the most common type, but were replaced by mice that use the PS/2 and USB ports. Contrast with bus mouse. See mouse.

And if you were to go back a few more years into the past, you’d have found when you bought a mouse with a PS/2 connector fitted, it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port.

But this time, it’s Mickey Mouse, founder Walt Disney’s own creation – or this first version of him, at least (although The Mouse Trap still manged to be first over the line ...