FS: joystick

[C. Sullivan]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:49 PM, David Griffith wrote:

> The Apple II series had a weird way of doing joysticks.  The most  
> common seemed to be the 9-pin female port.  For some strange reason  
> a lot of joysticks had a pigtail sticking out of the d-sub housing  
> that plugged into a DIP socket.  Last time I checked, all Apple II  
> machines had a DIP socket for joystick/paddles.

The 9-pin female port was introduced with the Apple //e, and continued  
with the //c and the //gs.  Models before that only had the DIP socket  
on the motherboard.  If memory serves (I'd have to go downstairs and  
look) the Frankin ACE 1000/1200 also had the DIP socket.

I seem to recall it was "popular" for owners of the ][+ to wire up  
their own version of the 9-pin female port using the remnants of an  
Atari joystick and/or a 9-pin female plug from Radio Hack.

FWIW: the CH (aka "Hayes" early in their life, no relation to the  
modem manufacturer) sticks were probably the best analog joysticks  
made at the time.