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A hand-held lever for steering in two directions, used to control aircraft and later video games and computers.
I designed and made, with the help of fellow Bell Labs mechanical genius Charlie Matkey, a 3D input device, a 3D joystick. You hold on to this top of this ball on the top of it, move it up and down, left and right, everything, and you can draw in 3D, control 3D things.
A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on 1960s Computer Art at Bell Labs
I went to a military supply place for airplanes where they had these small, high-precision joysticks. You could move them with subtle little touches.
Rebecca Allen, Operator Profiles Rebecca Allen