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| TopJimmyCooks:
Switchcade's display runs on a DVI cable . . . . mainly because I didn't have a VGA cable handy at the time. . . . . So anyway, I get a Craftymech SLG to try out, needing a VGA cable to work. I knew from messing with the kid's computers over Christmas that I didn't have one laying around handy. I go to the Legacy Cable Reserve Center (a couple of shoeboxes in the attic). I've got plenty of copper in there. Parallel printer cable, no problem! putty colored USB's and ethernets? Got em in spades. Midi serial cables? yep. That funky cable that went with the palm pilot? Yes! Both types! but No VGA. Went away for a while and remembered having a stack of various adapters somewhere: PS2 to usb and similar - maybe one is a DVI to VGA and I can rig some absurdly long double dongle out the back of the vid card. Could not find the stack o' adapters. Was at radio shack, passed on a $19.95 +tax cable with gold plated ends. About to click buy on monoprice ($3 plus $4 shipping) when I decided to raid the attic one more time. Spent 2 hours Sunday rifling and throwing away old pc component boxes. Found a VGA monitor with cable - alas, it was so old the vga cable was surgically grafted to the monitor's ass! Damn. Finally I upended an old laptop bag and found it - my last never used shiny VGA cable with bright blue ends. That cable almost ended up costing more than the SLG. Moral: Keep your legacy cables forever, no matter how many times you have to move the shoeboxes and milk crates. |
| lilshawn:
i can't bring myself to throw away mine either. i have boxes upon boxes of cables for floppy drives. i don't even have a computer that has a 31/2 inch drive let alone the old 5 1/4 with the slip on edge connectors. but if i ever need one... |
| ChadTower:
A year ago I finally bit this one and started throwing stuff away. I had way too many boxes full of stuff I was never going to use again. Stuff with no monetary value. Ancient motherboards, ISA cards, 64mb hard drives, cables cables cables. Shelves full of them. Finally I threw down a six pack to dull the pain and put them all in a garbage bag on trash night so I wouldn't have time for second thoughts. Yeah, maybe someday I'll need to build a 386 with a 5.25" floppy drive and a max of 32meg of RAM. Any of that stuff is still readily available on ebay. When I tossed all of that obsolete crap I freed up a whole set of shelves that I was able to fill up with g05 monitors and game PCBs like Atari Basketball. :P |
| Hoopz:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on January 14, 2013, 02:12:33 pm ---i can't bring myself to throw away mine either. i have boxes upon boxes of cables for floppy drives. i don't even have a computer that has a 31/2 inch drive let alone the old 5 1/4 with the slip on edge connectors. but if i ever need one... --- End quote --- This. Needed one a few years ago and had it. Ravaged three PCs to get a working floppy drive. Won't throw stuff away like this. Need to get it better organized though. |
| ark_ader:
I have my own definition of cable hell. In several boxes too. But close at hand. ;D |
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