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Our first mouse plugged into the serial port with a pass-through connector so you could still use the modem. There was a power adapter that plugged in there, too. Then you had to load the driver for the few programs that used it... though I think it also had a mode where it would work on a text screen, since so few program supported it. We didn't use it much.
This would have been on our IBM PC XT clone in the early 90s with 512k of RAM and a 5.25" floppy drive for storage. I don't think we used it with the PCjr we had before that, but I don't remember.