Problem went "Perpendicular" on me!

[gkomatsu@uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

[begin long story]
	Ever since I got my first Apple a decade (wow, that long?) ago
I had a strange problem with it.  Using a joystick sometimes when you
pushed it to the extreme left (or thereabouts) pdl 0 would suddenly
"flip" on me and register 255 (extreme right) rather than the expected 0.
Told mom about this, I figured there was something wrong with the Apple
"Joystick IIe" we (well, she =^) shelled out $60 for, so we took it
back to the store (major dealer identity withheld =^).  Went in the
back with the resident tech-geek to check it out.  He popped in
Choplifter (pirated, btw. =^)  The joystick worked fine, and I was passed
off as nuts.  Anyway the problem pretty much existed ever since but
I got adjusted to it (just don't push the stick _that_ far. =^)
	...years later, I got the enhancement kit and the thought
"wonder if that joystick thing got fixed?" but never checked it out since
I had long removed the joystick and damn if I was going to twist my
wrist to plug it in again (used the 16-pin socket inside)
	...last year, I found another joystick at Goodwill (for $10,
originally $60 =^) but never used it until... ...tonight I was organizing
& packing stuff (btw... anyone need empty 5.25 disk banks?) and came
across the joystick, and since I had all these disks laying around
I naturally decided to play some.
	But first, check out the joystick, ran the simple "1 ?pdl(0),
pdl(1): goto 1" program and the old problem seemed fixed!  I could
push left without worry of going right.  Then while playing games,
I noticed something funny... I'd go down when trying to go up...
	Reset into Applesoft and run the pdl program...  The old problem
which plagued the x-axis, "mutated" and does it's handiwork on the
y-axis!
	Anyone got any ideas on this?
[end long story]

	...on a side thing, dunno if it's related, before I got the
enhancement kit, when I ran the self check (ctrl-CA-reset) 97% of the
time I'd get "KERNEL OK", but the rest of the time I'd get "IOU EFLAG 1"
(I think it was "1"...)  I haven't turned up anything unusual yet with
the self check ever since getting the enhancement.
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