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“Joysticks, tracking balls and mouses are used to specify the point on a display where a certain instruction is to be obeyed” (by David Cowan – CAD International Directory, 1986)

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1984 – Mindset Joystick

Mindset Joystick was developed as an additional accessory for the Mindset personal computer. The Mindset computer was released in 1984 by Mindset Corporation, and was on sale for only a year. In technical terms, the computer was partially compatible with the IBM PC. It featured an Intel 80186 processor, 32 to 256 KB of RAM, and a non-standard graphics subsystem…

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1978 – DEC H3060 joystick

DEC H3060 Joystick was designed for the PDP-11 family of 16-bit minicomputers created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1970s and sold for about 3 decades – the ones UNIX operating system was initially created for. Particularly, the joystick can be found most often as a part of the VSV11/VS11 video graphics system, which included a cursor control/multi-display sync module…

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1975 – Tektronix 4952 joystick

Tektronix 4952 Joystick was designed for the the 4010 series text-and-graphics computer terminals and similar 4050 series desktop computers based on storage-tube technology created by Tektronix to avoid the need for video RAM and still have high display resolutions of up to 1024×780. Such devices were produced by Tektronix in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, until appearance of…

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