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From: metahawk@pawl.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby)
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Subject: Re:  My Two Cents on Joysticks
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Date: 6 Dec 90 03:10:30 GMT
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In article <16553@brahms.udel.edu> kinks@brahms.udel.edu (Karl E Aldinger) writes:
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>I have two joysticks that were given to me (along with some dusty TI 99/4As)
>They're Amiga joysticks and a friend (who also owns one) assures me that
>before Amiga (the self-contained company) created and sold they're design to
>Commodore, they were a joystick maker.  Not to downplay the importance of
>electro-mechanical peripherals, but I find it hard to believe that a co.
>making its living selling joysticks, could create such a neat computer.  Any 
>Amiga fans know the roots of the Amiga Co. 
>
>							Karl Aldinger

Yes, Amiga Co. (originally a joystick maker) designed the Amiga computer.
I believe they had some monetary shortages and couldn't get the Amiga
in production and/or finished.  Somehow CBM bought them and voila, the
Commodore Amiga.  (By the way their joysticks were rather good.)

                               Wayne Rigby
                               metahwk@pawl.rpi.edu  (Internet)