On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> > However, I am not sure the picture in the TechRef is a CoCo joystick. I
> > doubt that Radio Shack actually made their own joystick mechanisms, and
> > it's quite possible that the company that did also made them, differently
> > wired, for the PC.
>
> In the U.S. at least, IBM NEVER had a joystick. The drawing in the
> tech ref is definitely the same as the Coco one, but I have no way of
> knowing whether they drew a Coco one, or drew one by obtaining one
> from the same supplier who made them for Tandy.
I can say with absolute certainty that there was an IBM branded joystick
both for the PC and the PCjr (with the appropriate connectors) as I have
both. And as far as I know, these came from the U.S.
:)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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