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I've just found a wire that seems to be an old joystick type of connection
on the one end and a 3.5" stereo jack on the other.

Answers on the back of a postcard please!
 
A 3.5" stereo jack? Isn't that just wonderful? Just were would we
insert this postcard? Is there a prize for the correct answer?
 
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I've just found a wire that seems to be an old joystick type of connection
on the one end and a 3.5" stereo jack on the other.

Answers on the back of a postcard please!
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I'm no expert by any means but it sounds to me like some sort of MIDI to
3.5mm jack adaptor, from a keyboard (of the musical type) to whatever
you fancy plugging a 3.5mm jack into (the list is endless).
 
Anton said:
I'm no expert by any means but it sounds to me like some sort of MIDI to
3.5mm jack adaptor, from a keyboard (of the musical type) to whatever
you fancy plugging a 3.5mm jack into (the list is endless).
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Whatever it is, in my experience is if you throw it away now, you'll
find out why you needed to keep it within 48 hours. ;-)
 
I've just found a wire that seems to be an old joystick type of connection
on the one end and a 3.5" stereo jack on the other.

Answers on the back of a postcard please!
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Well we may need be a little more precise... what exactly is this "old
joystick type of connection"? The type you'd find on a PC soundcard or
motherboard would be a DB15, but something older like on an Atari,
might've been a DB9 (?) looked more like a serial port plug. If it looked
like a serial port plug, it might've been, old PDAs used something like
that, with the stereo jack to the PDA, to connect with PCs via the serial
port, though I suppose a lot of different peripherals might've as well,
anything that's only using a serial data transfer or 2 analog input
values.
 
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