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Clay Harrell, yes. He's a mover and shaker in the pinball community these days. I reached out to him a while ago as a possible interview on my podcast, but he declined, saying he's forgotten basically everything about it and no longer had anything related to the Senior PROM in his possession. He did say that he and a buddy created and sold the Senior PROM while they were still in high school.

As someone who lives on the opposite side of that dilemma (I consider most of my Apple II collection ancillary to the Apple ///s for which I lust), I can empathize.

The black "button" is a three-position, mode-selecting toggle switch. Here's a description from an Apple peripheral pamphlet. Interesting... I have one of these joysticks and I don't seem to recall a toggle switch, just a regular button. I'll have to check tonight.

(Sorry, I initially posted this with the NQP account, as you can see above...) II Computing was published by ANTIC Publishing, Inc, a company which normally handled Atari stuffs. Kevin Savetz secured the rights to scan and post these magazines (and all the rest of their content). He passed them on to me; I scanned them and posted them here: http://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/ii-computing-for-apple-ii-users/ Part of my agreement with Kevin was to make sure that wherever else I uploaded them, a copy had to end up on Archive.org, which Jason handled nicely. The issues available on my site and Archive.org are the complete run of the magazine. II Computing is posted with the IP owner's knowledge and consent. Thanks.