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Article #19091Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
From: David Lemson
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 16:18
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 16:18
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c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes: >In article <C0EBF5.EHL@andy.bgsu.edu> sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold) writes: >> If they're still shipping with the WD multi-port HD controller, the >>game port is built in. You just need to have them send you a joystick connector >>to plug into the card and you're set. You could also probably pick one up at >>a decent parts store for about a buck. If none of these workd, I'd just go >>out and get a Kraft joystick card for about $10 US. >It's a funny situation. A year back a friend and myself bought G2000's, >I got the desktop (stupid me, it's huge) and my friend bought the >tower. Both 486/33's. >Both had the WD multi-port HD controller; mine had a joystick port in the >back of the machine while my friend's only had it on the card but no >space to plug it onto the box. He called Gateway to have one sent but >I think they didn't sent it (or they did not have such a piece). Finally >he bought a game card. 1.5 years ago I called GW for that cable after I got my system that didn't have it, and they fedexed me a whole dual port game card. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!lemson From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems? Message-ID: <C0FxAq.8H9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <C05wL0.J87@news.iastate.edu> <C0EBF5.EHL@andy.bgsu.edu> <1993Jan5.200254.2033@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:18:12 GMT Lines: 26