This thing looks, and feels, like it came from an actual F-15. Holding it I feel like I could bomb [country that offends you] tonight!
Anyhow it's a Radio Shack 26-8104 "F-15 Combat Fighter" joystick. It's heavy. There seems to be a metal plate with actual hex head screws holding it together. There's a mish-mash of PS2, PC, and DB-15 connectors on there, can't wait to see if it sends out mouse or keyboard signals. Maybe because it has so many buttons it uses both the 15 pin and keyboard interface?
Googling it gives the rarely seen
"No results found for Radio Shack 26-8104 "F-15 Combat Fighter"."
Like, you'd think maybe one or two hits, something, some retirement home Myspace page about flight sims, nothing.
I just buy these things because they amaze me more than having a use for them.
And this is why Google sucks now. You just know that in all the web data they have archived, there is more than one entry about this unit over the past 30 years, but no. Nothing facing us (the public) anyway. They just actively erase all the history of people talking about shit that was so painstakingly built up. ๐ก
There are filters. At least for countries. If you search for a specific place with country at default, it may be that you get no results, while you get results with a specific country. I guess there are also many other filters.