Hatta wrote:
I picked up an Apple II joystick, model A2M2002. The joystick works just fine, but the buttons don't work.I can open up the joystick, and bridgethe connections and peek at the buttons and see them work. So I know the connection is ok.When I press the buttons they click, so the switches ought to be engaging. So I'm pretty sure the switches are bad. They say "omron b3f" on the back of them. But there appear to be many different types of these. Does anyone know what switches I can get to replace these?
There's no need to guess whether the switches are working. You can test for continuity across the switches when they are pressed with a multimeter (under $10 and infinitely useful) or even with a battery, a resistor, and an LED. If you look at a schematic of the joystick and the pinout of the connector, you can check both switches without opening the case. -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."