Re: Got an Apple IIe system today, some questions for ya

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:

> As regards that joystick: Most of the sticks for the internal connector
> were made for the Apple II+, which did not yet have the much more
> comfortable external connector. The II+ had a very different back side,
> with a small number of vertical, wedge-shaped openings in a rather thick
> plastic plate, rather than the plethora of covered small holes in a thin
> metal plate that you find on the back of the IIe. Thus many of these
> sticks do not fit the IIe's back plate all that well; you'll have to
> improvise.

I found that the best way to get the plug in was to carefully feed it
through one of the smaller holes, one row of pins at a time, "turning
the corner" once the first row was through.

I was using a ribbon cable connection to the joystick port, for an
external veroboard on which I was doing some digital I/O experiments. I
also had to get the ribbon cable around the right way for the socket, to
avoid twisting it too much.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz