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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
Talk:Joysticks
Unbranded "Black Beauties"?
I had thought that the all Black Beauties carried Radio Shack, TDP, or Tandy branding, but this Worthpoint page shows what looks like unbranded Black Beauties. They're bundled with a TDP-100 at that page; since TDP 100s usually came with a couple of Black Beauties bundled in, maybe these were the joysticks that actually came with that computer, and reflected a phase in production where the joysticks didn't yet have TDP branding. Also of note is that they have the more desirable metal sticks. I've never seen non-Radio Shack branded Black Beauties with metal sticks. Carney (talk) 16:57, 31 January 2025 (UTC)