Talk:Atari joystick port

A fact from Atari joystick port appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 January 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that although designed as an input for gaming controllers like joysticks, the Atari joystick port was also used as a serial port for devices like modems?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Atari joystick port.

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The reason for demise

Somebody had written his own theory about the demise of Atari ports saying that it had something to do with the rise of the computer mouse. That is not true. Atari ports were used primarily for mouse in computers like Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes. There is no any direct link between using mouse and scrapping Atari port. IBM PCs had always used different kind of ports for controllers and because this standard won the home computer markets, it led to the demise of Atari ports in that domain. --137.163.31.190 (talk) 12:59, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking over the article and I don't see anything like what you describe. Was it removed? Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:34, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Credit where credit is due

If you copy the table i put a lot of time of effort into almost verbatim from our company wiki, it would be nice to at least get proper credits. compare

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Joystick&oldid=745726668

and

http://wiki.icomp.de/w/index.php?title=DB9-Joystick&oldid=3915

you may also want to notice http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/IndividualComputers:Copyrights — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.198.123.163 (talk) 21:10, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

sigh* — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.198.123.163 (talk) 21:08, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a valid complaint to me. I would have to do some real digging to figure out when this was done. I have added references to the appropriate columns, but I would like some advice on making that more elegant.UrQuan3 (talk) 18:17, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

all fine now, thank you :) 84.119.188.148 (talk) 08:52, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]