Keyboard or Joystick?

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What control method do you use?

Combination of keyboard and joystick
11
24%
Keyboard only
32
71%
Keyboard and mouse
2
4%
 
Total votes: 45
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davcefai
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Post by davcefai »

You are of course aware that the term "joystick" dates back to the early days of aviation.

There's an amount of waffle on the web about it's origin but given the fact that it is an English term and the nature of English humour I have never had any doubt that the word has a lewd origin.

I first came across the word when, aged about 12, I read the Biggles books. (I was 17 when Popular Electronics published a set of articles on building an Analogue Computer). "PC" did not exist as a term for either a computer or an obsession with possibly but hardly ever offensive words.
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Oh no! Please don't make this into another "my-gosh-I-am-so-oooold"-thread!
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Commander McLane wrote:
Oh no! Please don't make this into another "my-gosh-I-am-so-oooold"-thread!
OY!!! :wink:
The Grey Haired Commander has spoken!
OK so I'm a PC user - "you know whats scary? Out of billions of sperm I was the fastest"
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TGHC wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
Oh no! Please don't make this into another "my-gosh-I-am-so-oooold"-thread!
OY!!! :wink:
Except The Grey Haired Commander, of course. He's explicitly permitted to make everything into a "my-gosh-I-am-so-oooold"-thread. 8)
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