13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
9:57 a.m.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
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.
:)
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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.