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Subject: Stiff Stick
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Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 02:44:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 02:44:08 1983
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From:      Ron Natalie 

Does anyone have a source of supply for stiff sticks. A stiff stick, is
a small post (about an inch long and 3/16" in diameter) that extends
from a keyboard.  It has little if any travel. As you press on it, it
generates a variable X-Y signal (voltage? resistance?) proportional to
the pressure exerted on it in the X-Y directions.  I've seen these on
certain DoD (read: wierd homebrew looking things that are useless for
any real applications) computer terminals (Designation AN/FYQ-67).

-Ron