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.