Suncom Tac-2 Joystick
date: label: Date made
content: Around 1984
name: label: maker
content: Suncom, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The TAC-2 ("Totally Automatic Controller") was a joystick widely sold in the mid-1980s for use with Commodore-64, Atari, Amiga, Texas Instruments, and Sears computers. It was used primarily for playing games. While many joysticks had only one programmable button, this one had two. Available in both white and black, it was manufactured by Suncom Incorporated.
label: Description
content: Peter L. Jakab, a curator at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum, donated the device. He reported that it was purchased by his father, Leslie Jakab, but apparently never used.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Peter Jakab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0265.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0265.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 11.43 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm