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Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?

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From: David Lemson
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.
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