At 11:28 AM 3/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Cord Coslor & Deanna Wynn wrote:
>>
>> > *Joystick.... I'd like some information on this one. It is a tan box
[snip]
>>
>> This is indeed for the Apple. It connects to a socket inside the case in
>> the upper-righthand area of the motherboard (with the keyboard facing
>> you). It is probably the highest (or one of the highest) quailty
>> joysticks ever to be made for the Apple. A true classic.
>
>These could also be used on the Sanyo MBC-55x series PC "compatible" as it
also
>used the Apple socket type joystick.
Was this the same Sanyo that was sold as the "Silver Fox" or something
along those lines?
Back in 1984 when my wife and I were looking for "our" first computer, we
had originally settled on the Leading Edge/Mitsubishi and called to order
one from an outfit in AZ. As usual, we were a day late, Mitsubishi had just
put the clamps on the Leading Edge mail order business the day before. We
managed to "bribe" the salesman to "buy one for himself" and ship it to us
on the sly, but he got cold feet and backed out. Our second choice was a
toss-up between the PCjr and Silver Fox (??). We ended up with the PCjr,
which may or may not have been the better of the two. Now I have about
thirty PCjrs in storage in different states from empty boxes to complete
units.
Before the jr was unplugged for the last time, it ran the NPCjrUG BBS with
a 10MB Racore hard drive (blew up two disk drives before we got a good one,
one just from wifie's vacuum cleaner bumping the desk--needless to say, the
carpet around daddy's desk was "hand cleaned" from then on) a Racore 384K
expansion in the drive stacker, a 128K Microsoft sidecar with bus mouse and
one of the first three USR Courier 2400s in Tulsa, as far as we know. We
were so cool.
Of course, I'm getting old (39 this July), so I may have the chronology a
little screwed up.
I always wondered what that Silver whatchamacallit would have been like...
Thank you,
David Wollmann
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Received on Wed Mar 04 1998 - 11:57:40 GMT