serial device
New mice are neither serial or parallel, they are PS/2...So, if you look at the back of the computer it has a different socket than serial or parallel.Only older mice was serial or parallel.P.S. Sorry for my bad English, I don't know if socket is the correct word, but...
yes a mouse is an input device.
which device is similar to a mouse
Computer mouse or a pointing device. Is that what you mean?
No, Mouse is an input device. Because mouse is used to instruct the computer where to point the cursor and anything that is used to instruct computer in any way is an input device. Output Devices show the processed data by a computer for e.g. a monitor shows where the cursor is by processing the input from a mouse.
The Serial number on logitech mouse is below it.
a mouse
Serial mouse to a serial port. Display device (Monitor) to the VGA port. Speakers to the audio out port. Mic to the audio in/line in port. Pen drive, Mouse, Printer, Keyboard, Sound cards, Memory cards, Cameras etc to the USB port. Power cord to the SMPS port. LAN cable to the Ethernet port. Dot matrix printer to the parallel port.
I think you are talking about the Mouse.
It is an input device.
RS-232 serial ports, Parallel ports, and PS2 mouse and keyboard ports. These days, all of these functions can be handled by Universal Serial Bus (USB ) connections.
Does it have to be a mouse, or can it be a pointing device? If it can be a pointing device, perhaps a touch-screen?