What is a Bus Mouse? A Technical History of Early Microsoft Mouse Interfaces

Comments and questions about this article are welcome on the Stardot Forums thread: What is a bus mouse? . While researching what kind of mouse I would need to work with my Acorn BBC Master Compact (circa 1986), I came across the the term "bus mouse" . I'm familiar with how 1980s/1990s era electromechanical mouses work, but I'd not encountered this usage before, and never in the context of Acorn…