Den Mon, 4 Sep 2017 03:40:49 -0700 (PDT) skrev "admin@wavestarinteractive.com admin@wavestarinteractive.com" <admin@wavestarinteractive.com>: > Really? > > https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zFjagrEWp-0/maxresdefault.jpg I actually have some USB cables with the logo on the wrong side. No wounder that they were sold at bargain prices at a rather big home electronics accessory chain here in Sweden :) > Even the VIC-20 and also the C-128 can be found with joystick ports > with the metal outside shield instead of all plastic. Well, on the male connector it doesen't matter much. > Then again, it is never a bright idea to try to plug in stuff blindly > trying to find the hole. That starts to sound like a personal problem > I don't want to get into. :-P Well, there is a reason all commercial joysticks and mice (for "Atari" style joystick ports) didn't have any metal shield. (Never mind the PC rs232 mice, that port can withstand a short circuit at least for a short while, and anyway you wouldn't change cables so often there). -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies. Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-09-06 13:03:22
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