Anyone recognize this?
Posted by Public-Sundae-2286@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 19 comments
Found in the back of a closet at my daughter’s workplace.
Posted by Public-Sundae-2286@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 19 comments
Found in the back of a closet at my daughter’s workplace.
ABeardHelps@reddit
Remember it? You bet as I owned one back in the day. Lots of game play on the Apple II with that joystick.
aakaase@reddit
Hell yes I remember the Kraft joystick
chupathingy99@reddit
Looks like a clone of the ibm pcjr stick.
Foreign-Attorney-147@reddit
Analog joystick, probably either for an Apple II or an IBM PC. If it has a 9-pin connector it's for an Apple, if it's 15, it's for the IBM PC. Kraft often relabeled these for other companies to sell for their computers. There's a version for Tandy computers with Tandy branding and another one for the IBM PCjr with IBM branding.
Ayatollah-X@reddit
I had the Tandy version as a kid, and recently bought a used one for my new (to me) Tandy 1000 TL. It's a little more fiddly than I remember, but that's probably because it's pushing 40.
texan01@reddit
Pretty generic joystick, I’ve got 4 of them branded as PCjr.
zushiba@reddit
Looks like a PCJR Joystick.
pmodizzle@reddit
Got the same one branded for the IBM PCJr
chickenbarf@reddit
I do, actually, yes.. But I dont remember the Kraft sticker.
teddro@reddit
Same. Trying to remember what brand I remember...
mareksoon@reddit
Radio Shack / Tandy had one branded with their name.
enrious@reddit
I remember a friend having the Tandy version - the adjustments you're mentioning, were they tiny "trim" wheels in the black plastic.
Sorry, was so long ago and it wasn't mine.
mareksoon@reddit
Yes.
The centering option was mechanical engagement of the springs via a pair of switches on the bottom, and iirc, the stick could be positioned anywhere to switch centering back on, but to disengage it properly, they have to be one one corner (top left I’m thinking).
mareksoon@reddit
Yes.
The centering option was mechanical engagement of the springs via a pair of switches on the bottom, and iirc, the stick could be positioned anywhere to switch centering back on, but to disengage it properly, they have to be one one corner (top left I’m thinking).
https://youtu.be/d-w2HE5ec1Y?t=1869
mrspelunx@reddit
Yup. The tip hurt my fingers after a while.
WarthogOsl@reddit
Funny, I only knew Kraft as a maker of early radio control plane radio equipment.
agent_flounder@reddit
Absolutely. That was my final joystick on the c64. The one that actually lasted. I blew through three or four in a few years before I got this one. (Actually mine looked slightly different; raised, gilded kraft lettering on the top in the corner. No sticker. Otherwise looks the same.
LuigiTeaching@reddit
Definitely had one for my Apple ][e
Ekra_Fleetfoot@reddit
Didn't LGR do a video on this?
Could've sworn he called it the "Mac & Cheese Joystick".