Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca.dsd.es.com!javelin.es.com!blgardne From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My Two Cents on Joysticks Message-ID: <1990Dec6.011923.12498@javelin.es.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 01:19:23 GMT References: <37094@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <16553@brahms.udel.edu> Reply-To: blgardne%javelin@dsd.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation Lines: 29 kinks@brahms.udel.edu (Karl E Aldinger) writes: >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. Why is it hard to believe? You've got to have something to pay the bills. You do indeed own a pair of the first Amigas made. If you want the complete collection, you'll also need to scrounge up a Joyboard. The Joyboard is a flat, rectangular joystick that you stand on. It was intended for sports oriented games so you could feel that you were really skiing or running or whatever. But more important, the Joyboard was also the genesis of the infamous Guru. It seems that someone at Amiga Inc. came up with the idea of using the Joyboard as a relaxation device. Sit on the Joyboard in the lotus position, try not to trigger any of the switches. If you did close one of the switches during your meditation, then it was of course, a "guru meditation error". Believe it or else! -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 blgardne%javelin@dsd.es.com ...dsd.es.com!javelin!blgardne (I hope) {decwrl, utah-cs}!esunix!blgardne DoD #0046 My other motorcycle is a Quadracer. BIX: blaine_g