I hoard cords like there's no tomorrow, and yet I can never find the ones I need.
I hoard cords like there's no tomorrow, and yet I can never find the ones I need.
I swear I had like 10 micro USB cables, but as soon as I buy a pack of type c connectors all of my micro USB connectors disappeared.
edit: I don't need gold. I need micro usb cables!
Right? I had the same thing.
I caught my significantly other tossing out a few cords at a time.. Like I wouldn't fuckin know.. The audacity of her, she's just lucky I love her or I would have whipped some sense into her with a cat o' 5 tails cable bundle.
Omg, the treachery. I never feel better than when I finally need something from "the box". If it were to just not be there anymore, my life would crumble.
Cat(o')5e tails
^^^sorry
I appreciate this correction.
Use one of those red/white/yellow RCA cable bundles. I actually have one right here… oh, wait.. where did it go?
grounds for Divorce
Jokes on you: She's into that shit.
Hope she didn't get the one that works good.
And you vividly remember seeing ten of them the other day while looking for a mini usb cable.
Don't worry you'll find them when you're searching for a USB-C connector
You have to give up looking twice, perform 3 new searches for different things, then you'll find original thing sitting in some fucking ridiculous spot just smarming it up at you. Works without fail. Apart from all the failed initial searches.
The whole 'last place you look' thing is fucking nonsense when these, apparently sentient, inanimate objects find YOU.
This guy searches
I needed this word in my life. Thank you.
You can skip the search and just purchase the cable you need. As soon as you have voided the return policy the cables you want will be absolutely everywhere.
Yeah. That's what I usually do now. Couldnt find electrical tape anywhere last week. Bought a new roll. Came home and there it was, just sitting on top of a random fucking box like the fucker had been there all along, mocking me.
Last place you look since you stop looking for the thing when you find it
No you have to spend money on a new one and then, just as soon as you can no longer find the receipt or the packaging, you will find the original.
If I'm looking for a USB C I'll enviably find the cord I was looking for last time I was looking.
So now I just look for a random cord I don't need and I usually find the one I really want.
You don't know the power of hoarding IDE cables. I can beckon them like Sauron did the Nazgul.
I threw that ring straight into that volcano. Big fan of these fast sticks.
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I do the same thing and the fact I kept losing them is why I became very anal about my cables. I'm also an audio guy so that's a whole nother world of cables that can get lost. I keep my cables in numbered boxes and check them in/out on a spreadsheet. It's a pain to set up initially but once you've got it it's not so bad. You'll only have like a dozen cables "in play" at any given moment and it helps me be more mindful of where my usual spots are to lose a cable rather than a tangled rats nest of god-knows-what cable strewn about. I also make use of zip ties when storing them. When they're out and connected to shit, I couldnt care less about cable management, but when I put them away I don't wanna be unable to even see what connector it is.
Look at this guy running an inventory on his entire life. I bet you monitor a Kill-a-watt using a webcam and know exactly how much your PC costs to run down to the hour on a spreadsheet don’t you
“It’s a pain to set up initially but once you’ve got it it’s not so bad.”
Mine takes ~1000 watts from the wall when fully loaded.
I think there's a law of nature at play. Once the equilibrium tips in favor of another standard, nature corrects itself to favor only one. Happened to me with usb-mini, micro USB, every proprietary cable, and even displayport mini.
Right? I used to have tons of usb-mini cables until I started using micro and now I can't find a single mini! Then once I started with USB c I seemingly lost all my extra micros.... now I have more usb c than I know what to do with and no usb minis or extra micros. They legit just vanish.
Definitely not because we no longer subconsciously keep track of cables we don't use frequently.
Just get a pack of these bad boys
They are okay for slow charging but they don't do data transfer or support quick charging protocols.
So like socks then
They're in your walls
I knew I shouldn't have let them out of their cage!
I have so many USB type A that I've just accumulated which literally fit nothing I own yet I can't find a single god damn micro usb or spare type C when I need them
But of course the one time I needed a type A I couldn't find a single one of them anywhere
Clearly along with teaspoons, biros, and socks, they make their migraiton through micro-wormholes to the USB to this planet that unattended biros slip away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely cabloid lifestyle, responding to highly cable-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the cable equivalent of the good life.
I, myself, once visited this planet and drove a limousine for a family of green Cat-5's.
I have a bag full of them, but finding one that can charge a ps4 controller, that's a venture!
10? I probably have 30 and when I come across more, I throw them away
Well they got jealous and ran away obviously
I swear I had like 10 micro USB cables, but as soon as I buy a pack of type c connectors all of my micro USB connectors disappeared
Yeah ,, I had some but I got to give them out to my brothers cause they still use these cables
Vaper here, used to get them free with vapes, have like 20 of them brand new, now it’s USB C but I haven’t bought a new vape in a couple years.
Same.
Which sucks cause not everyone has made that conversation yet lol
me too
I was trying to update an old controller and figured out that out of my 20 micro usb cables, only 2 of them were capable of data transfer. The rest were only for charging things so I threw them away.
It's like you threw a bunch of positive reacting magnets together
You think you're so special with this new tech, I'm outta here
"the future is now old man"
I have 4 boxes full cables, adapters, chargers and whatnots. Needed USB mini b to get some files transfered from an old drive and I swear I had several of them.
I was looking for a mini HDMI today and couldn’t find any but I swear I had like three. But I guess I have a bunch of rca cables for when it’s the apocalypse and HDMI isn’t a thing anymore.
Your comment just triggered the most intense bout of frustration because it reminded me that I'm missing a whole bunch of good micro and mini USB cables I had, but in their place I've got too many type-c cables
But why not just buy type c cables rather than adapters, since that is going to be more common going forward
I have a lot of old devices that I still like to use that require micro USB. My ps4 controllers, a couple of old raspberrypis, and my Xbox one controllers all have micro USB ports on them.
Plus some devices (I'm looking at you, e-readers) require a specific cable/adapter combo to work. USB-C adapter to USB-A/micro USB cable, yes. USB-C/USB-C cable with micro adapter, no. Then there are these little cables that are only good for charging, and not data.
Like perspicacity, it's always in the last place you look.
I always continue looking even after I find it, just in case I haven't found it yet.
10 Print is that gum?
20 goto 10
10 Print 𝚂𝚃𝙵𝚄 20 Print 𝚂𝚃𝙵𝚄 30 Print 𝚂𝚃𝙵𝚄 40 goto 10
(I know speed coding)
Reminds me of my retail days. I always give the newbies the same advice, and nobody has been able to prove me wrong on this one:
Everything is in aisle six, except for the stuff that isn't.
Always in the last place you look...?
Well yea., you’re not going to find it then keep looking are you?
Yes, because only a moron keeps looking after the thing is found.
Wow, you're pretty smart huh?
For me it's like finding Narnia. Don't look for it and you'll find it.
Couple years ago I finally tossed a couple of those weird USB types that only a handful of devices ever used. Figured it was fine to keep one but I didn't need 5. It was not an easy task.
I got rid of all of the extra mini USB cables I had since I don’t think it’s been used on anything for more than a decade at this point. The only one that I kept was the one that’s plugged into an old USB sound card and actually in use.
Two months later I needed to charge a GoPro Hero 3. It uses mini USB…
But what if you need them in 6 years for whatever reason? Yeah, you might think keeping one is enough, but what if you lose that one? And what if you need two because you have to connect two devices at the same time... Clearly you need at least 2, and another 2 for backup. Oh, and let's keep one extra juuuust in case.
Ok, maybe I actually kept 2, but my wife thinks it's 1. I was going through my 31 gallon rubbermaid tote of cables and thought if I get any more I'm going to need another tote.
Man I just went through this when moving a couple months ago and it's too accurate.
I already lost them after unpacking.
Same. My high ass was like yeah you'll label and bag them with writing to say what cables are in there and put there somewhere sober can't fucking find! It's been a year now and I still can't find half my cables damnit
Nah, if Rule of Two is good enough for Siths, it's good enough for cords.
But the Sith lost, the rule of two clearly didn't help them.
USB A to USB B?
Oh, a couple of those. And mini usb. A couple S-video (including s-video to RCA). Some SCSI.
Its an illusion because 80% of them are probably some micro-usb cable that came with some tat that you bought on a whim. I keep thinking I have a hefty collection until someone asks me for some basic shit and I realize I don't even have a spare aux cord lying around.
I buy at least 3 aux leads a year, they just vanish. I only ever use one, I just don't understand.
Your friends take 'em
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I'm doing the sock thing kinda. But I have 3 types, each being a different length which makes it easy to sort
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I need at least 2 types, the 3rd is for style lol
Let me show you around. That's my lab table and this is my work stool. And over there is my intergalactic spaceship. And here's where I keep assorted lengths of wire.
In other references, Andy Warhol actually recommended your sock idea in the Andy Warhol Diaries as I recall.
Exactly what makes me mad is that we got rid of parallel and serial cables, we got rid of IDE cables, we don't have ps/2 connectors anymore but somehow we are keeping 4 different standards for monitors alive VGA/DVI/HDMI/DP
You should declutter them then
I did at first, I had all my cords organized by type. But they magically disappeared when I needed them.
Over the door shoe organizer - example
Saw it on another reddit post using it for cords, just got 1 (and a second one) myself and it's great. Im hanging mine off some metro shelves, so doesn't have to be a door. Has 3 gromet holes at the top so you could also just hang it from nails.
That's going to require multiple doors though.
Gonna need one of these lol
I have 2, neither on a door lol. Both on either side of a metal shelving unit w/the hooks hanging from the top. You could also just stick some nails in the wall and hanging it from those.
I spent two days organizing my cords. They are each individually Velcro cable tied, placed in zip locks by type and then placed in bins with labels on them. It was a ton of work, but now I can find whatever cable I need extremely fast and pull one out without having to deal with tangles.
I too bundled, and ziplock bagged by type then into a large Rubbermaid storage bin. No tangles, easy to find. I have a lot of cables.
And when I finally throw out all my micro USBs I Always really need one the next day and I refuse to buy one after I threw out a nest of 20.
Organize, man. Coil your cables.
I used to put em in plastic bags and labeled and stored them in Alex drawers. I moved like 8 months ago and have no idea where they went lol.
Bought a display adapter for a second screen glanced it 7 times cause I have a thousand HDMI cables.
…and every time I toss one, I end up needing it 3 months later.
I have a small box of old parts that includes cables, just for nostalgia really. Got some PATA cables in there, in fact. But, since online shopping really took off, I was able to break the habit of keeping small parts and accessories, especially cables. It's way too easy to find an affordable cable for what you need now, with quick shipping too.
Heck, I even bought a new GameCube power cable just three years ago. It was not expensive. I also bought a 5v DC brick and some DC extensions for like $3 each. A fair price for freeing up a large tote worth of space.
The truth hurts and you speak it. I hoarded boxes of cords for most of my teenage and adult life. I had 10baseT NIC cards, modems, old video cards, VGA, S-video, coax, you name it. I finally got brave enough to realize I would never use all of it. I kept 1 of every type of thing (2 in some cases like VGA/DVI cables) and ditched all the duplicates. Went from 4 or so big cardboard boxes down to a small plastic container. It was a big relief.
But I still can’t find an HDMI cable long enough when I need one.
I finally threw away my gigantic duffle bag of cables I haven't used in 10+ years.
I guarantee I'll need one of them in the next month.
I just went through all of mine and twist toed them all. Found out i could buy an actual roll of twist ties. Changed my whole damn life.
I used to make fun of my dad for hoarding cords. Now I have a box of my own. How the turntables.
Organization!
isnt it ironic dont you think.
I also have Cord Alzheimer's
I will trash my SCART cables… sometime
Take an empty toilet paper roll, put cord in it making sure connectors are facing the same end. Place roll standing up right in your desk drawer. Repeat for all your cables.
I don't poop enough for that to be a quick solution.
I hoard them the same way and I ALWAYS the ones I need.
My wife actually made me throw away most of my precious cables. .. guess who needed a vga cable a half year later... MY WIFE. FOR her weird new laptop with an ancient port.
She let's me hoard cables again.
I still mourn over my missing cables though.... # never forget!
I feel this in my soul. I just upgrade my GPU and I couldn’t find a second 8pin PCIe to save my life but had every other damn cord you could imagine
I still have charging cables from old flip phones (presumably). Never know when you'll need one of those completely obsolete, 100% proprietary plugs with a 3.2v output!
because the ones you need are modern. No one needs a Ps/2 adapter.
I finally wised up and bought a cubby system and cubes on Amazon to store and label all of my different types of cords and parts. Life changing is all I can say
Good luck hoarding USBC cables. You’ll go to grab one from your drawer of identical cords of various lengths and it’ll be power only, or no power only, or USB2 transfer speeds, or DisplayPort with no data.
Rule No. 1 of cord hoarding: You always need the exact cord that you just convinced yourself to throw out three days ago.
My wife thinks I'm weird for keeping a bunch of different cables. Cue her surprise when she needed a USB-A to Ethernet adapter on her new job, and I could whip one forth from a box. She hasn't complained since.
I keep every fucking power supply I have encountered. And yet I never have the right voltage, polarity, or plug.
I stole a bunch from my ISP when I was having trouble with my landline and they kept sending incorrect hardware to fix it.
I then realized all the CAT5e cables I kept only have 3 wires connected to the jacks instead of the regular 8. I still kept them, maybe the cables are still branded as C5e so maybe if I cut the jacks I'll find the other cables unused inside.
A general rule for me is that I'll always try and hold onto at least one of each legacy cable. I've had issues where my HDMI ports have stopped working properly and my only option was to use a VGA cable. If I hadn't had one on hand I'd have been screwed.
I moved last month and I thought I put my main cables in one box but somehow the one display port cable I needed for my main pc was nowhere to be found. I dug out every cable I owned and couldn’t find it till I looked in a basket. I’m like how the heck did it get there. I have hdmi, vga, and other cables for days but only 4 display port cables. This is getting corrected soon when I buy 5 of them.
I have a giant storage tub that is just cords. I havent opened it in at least 3 years.
Will I get rid of it?
...no
I have a bag, and a drawer dedicated to cables. Yet, I too can never find the one I need.
I was checking my old jacket pocket a few months ago. I was like yup that's a SATA cable. I might need that one day and left it there. 😂
The Pentium 3 computer I'm keeping around? Yeah, that's an emergency backup in case the Core 2 Duo computer I'm keeping around as an emergency backup also fails.
You should have an emergency 486 pc just in case
That’s just my backup backup backup backup backup backup System/360…
And a difference engine just incase
Should I get a loom also?
Better back that loom up with a working scale replica of Stonehenge.
Pyramids or GTFO IMO
S/360 eh? How much coal do you have to feed it for it to boot up?
Happy Cake day!
Honey, did you see where I put my abacus? I might need it.
I’ll never forget the 2nd PC I built, 486 DX2 66mhz with 8 Mb of RAM. God I miss the days of min/maxing my memory settings for the boot up autoexec.bat and config.sys files for whichever particular game I would be playing.
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Yes, the turbo got it up to 66mhz. This was also back when you had that 2 digit, digital display that stated the current clock speed.
Depressing the turbo button takes it from the normal clock speed and downclocks the processor for compatibily with older games/programs.
That sounds right, it’s been too long 😂
Yep. 4.77 MHz XT standard. My first PC had a 10 MHz turbo button that made half my DOS games unplayable because they ran too fast. Some still ran too fast even without the turbo and I had to use a custom tool to slow the clock down even more, down to like Apple II speeds.
That brings back memories of creating a boot loader for Falcon 3.0 on an old pentium computer because the system didn't have enough Ram to run it and windows at the same time.
When Falcon 4.0 came out I had to buy a whole new computer and flight stick just to run it. Still miss that game
I used to push that shit to the limit. Think I had 612k of conventional memory left after boot before leaving DOS behind.
Man, that brings back memories. My first build had a caching hard controller from a company called Konan. Played a whole lot of FA/18 Hornet on that system.
Ugh I'm so jealous of the 66MHz. There were so many games that were just barely out of reach for my 56 MHz machine
hah my first PC build was exactly that. I thought it was so impressive to say “486 DX2”
way cooler than “pentium“
Don’t get me started on the hype of the 2x speed cd-rom.
dude our hard drive was half of a gigabyte!
That's just so I can play my old DOS games without having to tweak DOSBox.
Is it IBM compatible?
Mister does 486 pretty well
No . Shall keep 286
Just keep it around until it becomes a desirable retro system.
I keep mine under my abacus
Got one! And it's a Packard Bell so you know it will be the pinnacle of reliability. Almost runs Dos 6 perfectly. 25 mHz of raw power baby.
Yeah you never know when you might have a John Titor scenario on your hands.
I actually have a fully restored IBM PS/2 P70 "portable computer" from 1989 sitting one room away from me. It's been upgraded to Windows for Workgroups 3.11, has a 120mb hdd, 4mb RAM, and a 386 20Mhz CPU. I had to put a power supply in it last year, but it still boots and runs like a champ!
And a Hayes modem should you need to dial into anything.
I have one of those as the backup to my Cyrix 686
My backup is as follows. 2700X, i5 4670K, Phenom II X3 720BE (X4 940+), Athlon 3700+, Athlon 2500+, Pentium II 300MHz. Yes the latter has a Voodoo 2 card!
Oh oh! I have that Athlon 2500+ too, Barton core i presume?
Ofcourse! Oc'd very well too. So did the 3700+ which has 1MB cache vs 512KB on other AMD CPU's of that time. I have two actually, one did 2.7GHz the other 3.1GHz (golden chip) more or less. But I ran it at 2.9GHz because it got hoooot at 3.1.
I've got a stack of X58 parts. I bought one board for the 6 core Xeon, another for the I7 the Xeon replaced, the third one was my daily and just died one day. The whole time I have been randomly picking up used ram when I found a good deal.
Thats disapointing you dont even have a backup tandy or ibmpc what will you do if all those fail
Well I have a 486 at my father's house.
I think my dad still has the Apple IIe I grew up on. Does that count?
Maybe
Wow, you can Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex with authentic GlideFX!
I can and I will! Glide was an insane step up graphics and performance wise. I somehow feel bad for the current generation as they've never experienced the insane graphics upgrades in late 90's early 2000's. But they should laught themselves to bed every night because buying a high end card for 500$ back in 2003 meant it was worse than mid-tier 2 years later. Whilst GPU'S are more expensive today, I'd say it's cheaper in the long run compared to the golden age of PC-Gaming.
Well, minus the last couple of years, anyway. I really need to get emulated GlideFX working. Those legacy games that supported it really look better than with Direct 3D, which is all modern cards can run.
Yeah, GLIDE back then was a far bigger step-up than RTX now :)
Pentium II 300MHz
Oh I have one of these under my desk...lying on its side as a foot rest.
Slocket was the good times! They should go back to slocket. No need for repasting when reseating the CPU because you had to move one cable that was blocked.
Oh, I also have a Motorola?(?) powerbook duo 68030.Battery still works, albeit not very well. First and only Apple I'll ever get.
I've not sold or done anything with my last 5 mobile phones for the same reason
You could turn them into a lot of things. Indoor security camera, home assistant dashboard, etc.
Sure I haven't gotten around to doing this with any of the numerous old phones I have lying around.... But the options are there...
tbf one of them has been turned into a PC stats display!
I actually do use my HTC 10 as an OBS Cam. Nice for streaming if you want a second video feed or a scene where chat can follow you without tying up your actual phone.
As someone who doesn't stream, could you elaborate?
OBS has a video source type called "DroidCam". It connects over wifi to a phone running the mobile app, DroidCam OBS, and uses the phone's camera.
So let's say you're showing off your cat's derpy face when it's given treats. Your main camera can be positioned to frame the whole cat and yourself. The old phone can be zoomed in on your cat's face and it's video can be put "picture-in-picture", in the corner or something.
Or let's say you have to leave your desk because food has arrived but, instead of just leaving chat hanging, you want to bring them with you to the door. Make a "scene" with the DroidCam and switch to it, then carry the phone as your live camera.
A "scene" is a collection of sources saved in some configuration. For example, one scene might be small camera in front of full screen game. Another might be the game in a frame and chat on the side. One more might just be music, a picture, and a "be right back" message. You just set up the scenes how you want and then you can switch between then.
My backup phone is still my old Nokia N73, but I'm fairly sure they've turned off the GSM/EDGE network in my area.
Exactly. Who knows, the Smithsonian might pay me big bucks for my Palm Pre.
All my old phones failed because of the charging port. Damn cord won't stay in there.
Do all of them have intact screens?
All but one! Though they do each have their own issues between battery/usb port/camera being gubbed
Unless you're actually gaming and need the upgrades, you really don't need a new phone that often
I have had 2 smartphones since 2012 and #2 from 2018 is gonna take me through a few more years at least
Reduce reuse & etc
Same... Although my olds phones have either a half-functional charging port, or varying degrees of display damage(I'll replace the totally dead screen on my S7 eventually)...
I fitted my Core 2 Duo PC in a low profile case to have in my workbench and use it to view schematics, instructions and YouTube video guides. I also put a low profile 750Ti in there in case I need to... game.
What kinda chip you got in that? A Dorito!!
It's all about the Pentiums.
That's also in case we need to run legacy software that refuses to run on a newer OS, so we do a complete install just for that
my core 2 duo primary file server starts to cry at your 'emergency backup' comment.
I still have my Commadore 64 in the crawl space.
My main and my backup both crashed. Now I am building a new one with some of the main's parts, and combining both of the previous into another backup. Its backups all the way down.
I'll be damned if I'm going to stop gaming at 2:00 A.M. just because the monitor gave out. I'll spend two hours switching out the video card, connecting the backup, patching, and fixing settings in my game so I can get five more minutes in before I have to start getting ready for work.
im lookin right at a ATI radeon 7500 graphics card, still in sealed anti static bag, in the box,
that i never used, but who knows? Maybe ....Maybe
Haha that's why I carry 2 extra phones in my backpack
I've still got my AMD Thunderbird/Radeon 9500 box.
The overclocking capabilities were so magical (pencil trick and 9700 bios flash) that I've never been able to get rid of it.
I was using my Core 2 Duo as recently as last year, but decided it's probably time to get rid of it. It worked surprisingly well still.
It's still good for browsing and watching videos...
I don't use it because it's not as fast.
Consider donating old hardware to local non profit computing stores. Many help provide low cost computers to families and kids and are happy to accept old hardware. Free Geek is my local center
Not that old though
Core 2 Duos are backup computers now? nervous sweating
Oh, hello me
Go ahead. Ask me how many old cell phones I have.
Oh, my trade is worth $10? Well, it's worth more than that to me in a drawer, so I'll keep it until the sun dies.
I'm still holding on to my Apple II GS Woz Edition....ya never know
Dale Gribble would be proud. Pretty sure that's who had the back & backup's backup stuff on King of the Hill
Good enough for plex
I keep it for IT reasons... Alot of weird old systems come my way and it's better saying "i can fix it for $50" than "you need a new system and since you can't buy used, itl be $460 plus labour to setup"
Not that I've ever seen a cpu actually die natural death, only boards, psus, gpus, and ram... But you never know..
Core 2 duo does not handle win 10 well.
I have just a pentium 3 processor lying around somewhere
I doubt I could even find a motherboard with the right chipset for it anymore, but who knows when it will come in handy
This is why I never throw any pc parts out
I have a drawer half full of RAM at this point...
It's always nice to be able to keep your old memories with you
Too bad they're always random.
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love and waffles,
I love this copy pasta because it so perfectly encapsulates early internet culture for my generation.
they are kinda volatile, too
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Then I can download more RAM later!!
Might be worth selling on eBay. Not sure how it is now but a couple years ago I was trying to buy DDR3 RAM because I keep computers running way too long and it was so expensive. I guess because critical applications run on old computers which makes old parts to keep them going valuable.
Most computers with processors and motherboards that use DDR3 are still perfectly modern in terms of potential hardware specs and many entirely are. So its a shame how hard it can be to find cheap DDR3 Ram these days.
Really? 4GB sticks are cheaper than their DDR4 counterparts from what I have seen. 8GB are more expensive though, so if you want 32GB of ram, say goodbye to your core i7-4770k.
I just keep it for my own swarm of PCs and occasionally share with friends in need. I pulled all of it out of junkers given to me for free anyway.
Depending on market it can be pretty cheap I was seeing $10-15 a stick for 8/16gb sticks. This was server ram though.
I have a ton of DDR/DDR2/DDR3
I got a box of core 2 duos I keep around in case I ever need a core 2 duo I guess.
This is the reason why I still have some 8” floppies laying around.
& JUST when you throw away a cord, you end up needing it the next week or month. It’s like clockwork, really.
Got rid of a bunch of old SATA cables I no longer needed. A week later I built an unraid server and had to buy SATA cables.
Same here, just got rid of boxes of old cables a few months back. Building a new unraid server this weekend and had to buy a new VGA cable for my Supermicro motherboard.
Happens all the time.
So if you throw away a modern cable that you have no devices or uses for, next month you’ll get a new device for free!
Tossed a usb 2.0 A Male to B Male cord.
A week later my dad bought a new printer but it was a cheap piece of shit that didn't come with the cable to plug into the computer.
Three guesses what cable I needed to go out and buy.
I own one or two of those and I need four or five
i just needed one last week :-D ...
HP docking stations have 2x DP and 1x VGA ... aaand i wanted three monitors :-)
Omg me too
Mine needs an adapter to USB C and the only adapter we had was VGA to USB C.
Data running through that cable: "What year is it?!"
That data would have to be a time traveler. Going from 1999-2016 in nano seconds 😂
Could we just switch everything to usb-c already? It does data/display AND power, and you can get an adapter from usb-c to hdmi/displayport
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It’s the go to option for most enterprise hardware in my experience. Shit like server terminals where high resolution is not needed and backwards compatibility is
I mean VGA does 1080 no issue
Living up to your username!
VGA has a maximum resolution of 640x480
SVGA has a maximum resolution of 800x600
Theoretically you could force either of them to transmit a 1080p signal, but the result would be a smaller number of possible colors.
Edit: Ignore me, I am wrong. My comment is just the original standard
You are wrong he is right https://www.bluecinetech.co.uk/vga-max-resolution/
I firmly remember gaming on vga at 1080p
Yup. I've recently used a VGA cable for 1080p. Maybe they're confusing it with composite video via RCA...
Source? I have a 4:3 color editing monitor that does 2048x1536 and its only input is VGA. Is there any way I can check what color signal it is capable of at this resolution?
R/confidentlyincorrect
Swooped in quite passionately there bud xD
Yeah I probably should’ve pumped the breaks there lol
Came back just to say I respect you for leaving your comment up as it stood with the edit at the end. Not everyone has such commendable humility to admit when they're wrong. Bravo 👏
I mean, you are technically correct.
VGA is 640x480 and SVGA is 800x600. Those are names for graphic standards from way back then (similar to 1080p or 1440p).
The limits of the identically named VGA cable are higher.
I think these people really meant using whatever can be pushed theough the cable itself lol
my CRT back then did go above 1080p on VGA lol
Most companies will run with old projectors until they die. They want to make everything last as long as possible so the money they put into buying looks to be a good investment. So either they wait until they have to replace it or until it cost more to keep it then get a new one.
I work as a field tech and I keep a box of VGA cables in my car, which I expense to the client for $15 a piece. I make a killing with these things.
I paid $25 for one at Office Max last week. You can hose, but you still can't hose like the pros. lol.
The hose pros, lol. Has a ring to it. The few things I used vga, 1 was a CRT which of course had a non-detachable cable.
its because monitors last forever and never get updated unless requested, on systems that are not frequently used they stick around forever (if it aint broke)
a ton of monitors where i work are DVI/VGA only, so yea we have a ton of adapters and cables around
Still using a HP 2009m Moniter as my side /info screen , working hard for 14 years now
In a work setting the hardware is older so it’s expected.
Our parent company sets all of our IT policies. They've implemented a 3 year lifecycle for all end user hardware, including laptops, phones and monitors.
Completely unnecessary but it's their money to burn I guess.
Gotta factor the time spent on resolving minor issues into the cost analysis as well. Every year that passes a computer becomes more prone to random issues, especially in a business environment where theyre often going 20+ days between reboots and laptops in particular are only getting a true power cycle every few months.
Point is, whats fine in the consumer space often isnt fine in Enterprise. It could actually be more financially prudent to always have newer devices when you factor the loss in productivity on all sides.
Believe me, id much rather that then what Im used to, which is "WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED A NEW LAPTOP?! WE JUST BOUGHT THIS LIKE 6 YEARS AGO!!!"
Thats ignoring the possible issues that come with upgrading hardware and the accompanying firmware with regards to user familiarity, IT serviceability, and security, over locking down a very solid 'modern enough' release.
Well, i deal with both on a regular basis (MSP life) and I can tell you emphatically, the orgs I support that have an aggressive replacement schedule have far fewer support issues than those that keep the shit limping along, outside of the "I have a new version of Windows and can't find anything!" calls, but thats not a support issue, thats a training issue and shoild be handled by their respective departments, not IT support.
We're not here to teach the people how to use a computer, were here to make sure they have one that works.
we have a 3 year replacement policy at work that started in like 2018
COVID related supply chain issues had other plans
Completely unnecessary
A 3 year is a bit aggressive, but it isn't completely unnecessary. It's based on a huge level of data analysis conducted by the "big guys". My first IT job was for a company owned by the evil one. Nestle. We had a mandatory 4 year replacement cycle for all hardware. Because they calculated that was the timeframe where support costs outweighed the savings of keeping said old hardware. Wasn't just a randomly picked thing.
That gives students the option to buy very solid second hand notebooks.
God bless them.
Not even that, its just some of the enterprise hardware still uses legacy connections.
That's not really it though. It is just that vga is incredibly simple and thus compatible with absolutely anything out there.
For everything else you need various protocols the devices communicating with each other, somtimes some bullshit like hdcp and a bunch of other things.
With vga you need 2 sync pulses and the rgb information. In the absolute worst case you don't even need a video adapter at all for vga as long as you are able to directly put the content of some memory onto the rgb pins of the vga adapter.
it is the cheap ol' reliable. Not the best out there but if shit hits the fan this thing gets the job done.
Wait till this guy finds out we still use serial connections :D
Also congrats, IT is super fun. Playing with enterprise grade equipment is a blast!
lol..been in the business 20 years. We used to throw those cables away by the box full. They were everywhere. Every client had a box full.
Last week I had to buy one and it almost killed me.
Now the important question: was it the left or right monitor, or did you keep it symmetrical?
Right monitor. CMV.
No this is correct
When my gf’s work went to WFH she brought a monitor home with just the power cord. She didn’t bring the docking station because it wasn’t allowed to and didn’t think to bring the display cord. Monitor was VGA and DP only. I only had spare HDMI laying around. Dug through my old cords box and found a VGA. Got to feel like a hero briefly.
My hoarding paid off recently.
My second monitor quit working which had an HDMi so I had to dig out an old one, only had VGA.
My dock only had a working HDMI slot.
I only had one available DVI cable.
I managed to dig and find a VGA to DVI adapter and a DVI to HDMI adapter.
So now I have a VGA monitor adapted to a DVI cable adapted to an HDMI input and it somehow works.
Can't DP monitors be daisy-chained?
I think it depends on the DP standard and monitor. Otherwise you would need an adapter.
thats the theory ... and some support it, in my case nope .. HP E243...
They need to have some hardware built in to enable it, I've never seen it even on the $1000+ monitors I've owned. Perhaps more common on stuff aimed at professionals rather than hardcore g4merz™.
My office is still getting brand new VGA cables with new systems. We used them primarily.
i just needed one last week :-D ...
I just BOUGHT ONE for $25 last week. We used to throw those damn cables away by the box full. But I needed console access to a server and god damn if there wasn't a single blue headed cable in that client's office or my work vehicle.
been there .... COM cable for old Cisco switch configuration ... 30 bucks ... last year ... dayumn ...
Bröther.
I had to buy the super popular "DP to VGA" cord on amazon to make mine work with my third monitor.
You can daisy chain display port, most monitors support it.
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HP 840 G5 and the "side knock" docking station supports either 2 extra screens and internal, or 3 externals and no internal ...
source: we are having those all over the office :-D ...
Unless they mean literal 1987 VGA standard - not just VGA connector.
there is always this one dude ;-) ...
Same. Troubleshooting an old build and needed to use onboard graphics…
Yup, had something similar with an HP desktop. You had to go into BIOS to enable the VGA port in addition to the two DPs.
i literally had this exact issue haha, was going to comment this
Omg literally exact same situation. New job docking station has 2x HDMI and 1x VGA. Threw out my VGA cables 2 months ago :(
VGA is still needed to this day, same with PS/2 because when everything else won't work, this will "just work" (that's also why I still have an PS/2 keyboard stored).
But IDE cable? Yeah, you may throw away those!
I was kinda surprised to find that the MB (AMD B550 chipset) I bought for my brother had a PS/2. I like that, because PS/2 just works every time all the time. Great for troubleshooting.
I had the issue where I couldn't go to the BIOS because it didn't registered the key press on my USB Keyboard.
Worked first try with the PS/2 one.
There's usually only one port just for the keyboard but yeah, like VGA, it's analogue and "just work", which is great for trouble shooting.
Same reason I will always have a PS/2 keyboard and will always buy PS/2 compatible motherboards.
I had the issue where I couldn't go to the BIOS because it didn't registered the key press on my USB Keyboard.
Some motherboards have a specific USB port you have to use to get to the BIOS.
Yep, most modern mobos have the issue where all but 1 or 2 usb ports need a driver or something. Usually I feel the usb 2 port(s) will work, but I should get a ps/2 keyboard just in case.
You definitely should. PS/2 always works. I've kept my old keyboard from 1999 and it still performs as if it was brand new. Which is fairly crappy but functional!
Got a brand new z590 mobo for a 11700k at work. It's got a PS/2 port. Nice to see it has the option even if I haven't used a ps/2 port in over a decade.
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Also, TRUE n-roll over (assuming an appropriate keyboard)
Ps/2 saved my ass when a gigabyte motherboard decided it didn't want to do a usb power check on boot, and I couldn't even get into bios to fix it.
Strange thing that I have YET to figure out: on my Gigabyte X570 Master motherboard, I cannot boot to BIOS with my Corsair K70 (USB wired) keyboard, but I *can* if I connect my (wireless - via USB dongle) Logitech G915.
VOODOO, I SAY, PURE VOODOO.
Largely due to some people believing a ps/2 is inherently lower latency by virtue of being interrupt driven, while USB was (and commonly for keyboard is) polling. Some merit early on but now even the polling interval is so frequent that worst case timing is still way less than the time it takes for a ps/2 to transmit a keystroke.
Though some people are also really attached to their model m keyboards, not sure enough of those to justify a board vendor including it by themselves.
ps/2 has some big advantages though. Like n-key rollover or being independent from drivers/hostcontrollers and the cpu state.
Nothing you technically need but these ports cost hardly anything to add to the board so you might as well put them on there for those people that actually use those features.
Also no the polling is slower than the transmit of the ps/2 input. Just not in any noticeable way Your fingers are way slower than any signals out there.
That n-key rollover was actually very useful back in Jr High
Friends and I would play Bomberman on the school computer
Everyone got a section of the keyboard. 4 players, one keyboard
Wild times
That means you could press keys all at the same time?
Yep
We all had an up down left right and 2 action buttons
No delay, lag or missed presses
I'm fairly certain no one uses PS/2 for general use, perhaps some model M users. But PS/2 is literally there to pick up the pace when USB fails.
What kind of troubleshooting is there that USB doesn't offer?
When USB doesn't work. It's far more common than you might think. But also far more common in older hardware. Anyway it's a fallback, redundancy you know. Without PS/2 and a non-responsive/working USB/USB keyboard you are severly limited.
I've had USB keyboards not working at least 15 times since 1998. Including tech support for friends. I myself have only had that happen about once or twice. But redundancy is always good, always..
Having a PS/2 port doesn't bring any negatives, only redundancy.
Edit: apparently it's not spelled redundance.. So I fixed it.
Language hard, ooga booga.
My pc I built in 2010 had a ide slot and cable. I held onto it for like 4 years then said, it's 2014 I have never touched IDE in my professional life.
1 week later I needed an ide cable.
Yeah but you still had an IDE slot. I have nothing left that have that slot, so it was useless to keep the cables.
But what about all the random barrel DC plugs that I don’t know what they go into but might work in something one day?
I have a plug with interchangeable bit for that just in case.
These are the ones that get me. I have no clue what theyre for, but Im sure that when I find the weird old device and want to tinker with it, I wont be able to get the right power supply for it unless I hold onto that horde.
I’ve managed to dig out 1 or 2 that did work for something random and it only reinforced the hoarding
I still have my computer from like 2003-2004, I plan on getting rid of it soon, but I just haven't gotten around to it... 😂
My Intel E8400 cpu is still in a fully working pc, used by a roommate. Great low power/wattage browsing & netflix machine. Gpu is a GT630 but I also have a gtx 660 just in case.
That's exactly what I used mine for, a media machine in the bedroom.
I actually didn't have a slot. That cpu died in about 2013 (unfortunate) and it was cheaper to get new mobo and cpu, this time without IDE.
someone else's computer I was fixing had an ide cable that failed.
You just described my nightmare scenario
Noooooo what if you neet to boot your 486 with a floppy disk?
Don't IDE cables fit the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi?
Yes, it fits 3.5mm (iirc) Pinheader. And the flat ribbon cables are quite convenient. I've cut so many IDE connectors to fit circuits and buying those still cost a small fortune.
Don't throw them away but donate them to your local hacker-/makerspace.
Good question, haven't looked into it but maybe.
If I remember correctly, the gpio on the raspberry pi has an extra pin that prevents the use of an IDE cable.
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Nope. Check out a pic of an IDE cable. There's a blank spot in the middle where there needs to be an opening to recieve a pin. It's in the very middle, not on one end.
Dang, I guess I should throw those out then, lol
Ps/2 keyboards are such solid pieces of equipment.
PS/2 keyboards are objectively better than USB in terms of performance because they use hardware interrupt instead of polling.
eh with modern systems there's hardly a difference at all. Well unless your system is bricked in some form or really pushed to the max then ps/2 is better.
Well or if you completely overload your USB host controller.
Under normal circumstances USB is fine though. Mainly because under normal circumstances our modern cpus still idle a whole lot. However if you want true n-key rollover ps/2 is what you need. USB can't do that.
Years ago I threw all my old ide cables out, guess what happened 2 weeks after that? I needed it for a retired guy that bought freeware back in the day to run on his 98 box. (It's air gapped with USB backups)
I have a 20ft VGA cable from a storage server to the monitor on my desk. It helps the 1 time a year when something goes wrong and I can't ssh in. I also started tossing sata cables, every motherboard comes with them and they are becoming less useful over time. Same goes for power cables, 2 spares are enough.
You can save up a bunch and sell or trade them too
Power cables are like $5+
IDE cable is actually still used. I use it at my job all the time to break out the I/O on various microcontrollers and single board computers. Different use but still useful.
IDE cables are the second worst thing after SCART
My new hatred is those stupid RGB connectors that don't have any way to click in place and just fall loose constantly. Who designed that crap? Why didn't they just make it like a fan header connector?
Story time!
When I was doing freelance video editing I was working with a firm that basically was a time capsule because the new licensing terms for Avid Media Composer was more than they were looking to spend against the volume of content they were producing. So they hung behind on Media Composer 7.
Now Avid is a very cantankerous beast. It's less troublesome now than it used to be (Avid workstations used to need to be like clean room environments), but it's still super sensitive to OS versions and driver versions. Well I was doing work from home and had MC7 happily humming along on my Windows 10 machine (in 2019), even though it's last supported version of Windows for MC7 was Windows 8.1 in 2017.
Well one day my system goes sideways and I have to nuke and do a fresh start. That's fine, I've got backups, I'm not under any deadlines, I know what to do. Except every time I try to reinstall MC7 the thing hard crashes Windows when it tries installing the DX drivers. Big off. Total show stopper. So I decided I'd build a time capsule of my own. Got a cheap SSD, bought a Win7pro license, and got to work.
And that's when I discovered that neither the Windows 7 installer nor Windows 7 itself had native support for the XHCI USB 3 chipset that was driving all of my USB ports! And of course I had gotten rid of all my PS/2 hardware! So another trip to Micro Center where my choice was an $8 mouse or a $120 DAS KEYBOARD.
Or a $3-$5 PS2 male to USB female dongle. My keyboard came with one so you can use it as PS2.
Mine didn't, and I didn't have any lying around, unfortunately.
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Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite / Asus X570-PRO / MSI B450 TOMAHAWK / ASUS CMI-ASU-B360-PR-GA etc.
Still pretty common because of lack of driver needed but it start to be removed seem UEFI should be able to handle mouse/keyboard properly.
Add ASRock B450M Pro4, and ASUS Prime B550M-A to the list.
Yeah, I just took the first few example from Amazon, I wasn't gonna list all the available item since it should be a lot more.
Ah, figured that was just the ones you handled.
Asus Prime B450 too.
Mine has a combo port.
They still sell motherboards with PS/2. As I commented above I just bought a B550 MB for my brother that has a PS/2 connector.
my NAS has them. it’s a older gen 3 i5 pc.
Every motherboard I've owned has one, including my current build. I don't go out of my way to get them but I guess when you buy regular ATX boards rather than mATX they must just include one by default. It's saved me when iTunes USB filter broke and made every single USB port of my PC inoperable.
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It installs a USB filter driver for some reason, I was trying to upgrade my itunes and something went wrong in the process and I had to reboot the PC and after that none of my USB devices would work. Every single one of them had the yellow triangle as a result of this filter driver not existing / being corrupted.
PS/2 Is just the o' reliable port, baby. If PS/2 ports don't work? Welp. Your mobo might, not always but might, be FUBARed when it comes to PnP, (Plug n Play), ports on board.
I feel personally attacked.
I would say the opposite. Vga I see driven in ways the monitor can't support (signal out of range), that's not really a thing in dvi, display port, or HDMI.
I have to keep a USB-Serial dongle handy to admin my SAS expander. When you get into the more "enterprise" gear you find lots of old stuff consumers have forgotten about are still there.
IDE cables are useless? laughs in Raspberry Pi.
In my case, there's no point in keeping them considering that my monitors and GPU only have HDMI and DisplayPort.
I had a Dell Inspiron a few years ago that needed a VGA cable because it used an integrated graphics card and was unbelievably annoying to install new components into.
I purged my cables and cords box the other day to keep only one of each unique type of connector. I won't lie, it felt pretty good.
Yup my spare VGA cable went to a friend who needed a second monitor for work during the last lockdown.
Typing this on a PS/2 keeb, its amazing
I always have a vga cord and a dvi cord on hand
Add an HDMI to DVI/VGA adapter and you're ready for anything
My current setup still uses a DVI-HDMI converter. DVI is all my top monitor accepts
Displayport enters the chat
Boo, hiss!
Even the Spanish inquisition?
Ready? Yes.
Expecting? No.
And a power cord. And an RJ-45 patch cord. And an HDMI. And an RCA. And a P2 3.5mm. And a micro USB. And a mini USB. And an USB A to B. God, I have way too many cords...
Don't worry, that's 2 out of the 20 cords I have, I think I still have an S-Video cord
I still have a pair of 20" dell monitors connected with DVI. The 1200x1600 resolution makes them perfect in vertical orientation along side my ultrawide that's running 3840x1600.
I mostly like to keep adapters handy, like HDMI to DVI.
I'm not saying I don't have 12 vga cords.... I'm just sayin'.
I end up using a vga cable every few months. Now S-video I could see never needing again.
I'm still not getting ride of it yet...
too many flavors of DVI, I don't even with those
Yep, when the zombie apocalypse happens and the ONLY printer we can find is an old parallel port one, I'll be ready!
I think you will have more problems than getting a printer work, when it breaks out.
said printer can be used to confuse the zombies. and if the zombies were former office dwellers, them standing around confused will give ample time to evacuate the area.
Our old dot matrix printer in the 90s sounded like a steam powered machine gun. Use it to distract them whilst you email yourself to safety.
But is your cable long enough to run it, down the hall?
If not, I have enough coax cable to get there!
It's milpool's time to shine!
What fun would it be to throw away old cords when you can spend an afternoon untangling them all to discover you don't even have what you need
I found it helpful to introduce zip lock bags (big ones) to separate my cord bin into smaller batches of ethernet, audio, video, power and other cords.
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3.5mm audio cords multiply like unemployed rabbits. I have no clue why I have so many of them in my junk drawer but none of them work.
Dude where can I get those I really need some cheapo AUX cables and dont want to waste 5€ in the store...
There's no such thing as too many Ethernet cables.
Oh that's perfect. Absolutely, my husband is totally free to keep all of his assorted lengths of wire, they're his after all-- as long as he doesn't mind me organizing them all in one place like Marie Kondo.
I find I just say fuck it and buy new shit whilst I likely have exactly what I need
My brother is still using a VGA monitor daily it's an FHD Samsung from 2013. Paired with RX 550X BTW.
Should support at least DVI if not HDMI or DP
I still use a 1024x1280 ViewSonic monitor from 2004 (VE710s). I had to replace a few capacitors because the backlight was a bit dim, but only 2 USD of replacement parts and she still runs like new. Old monitors last a long time!
Just scored an old acer from goodwill. 24 inch 16:10 1080p from 2008 I think. DVI and vga.
Pretty rad, so rad in fact it replaced my main 23 inch 1080p dell monitor.
Many companies still use vga for office computers.
And I still need VGA cables for my secondary monitors that came from used office equipment
My trusty 1650 only has one hdmi and one vga, so I'm keeping as many of these cables as I can get
My office laptop has an HDMI port as well as a VGA port, but the second monitor they gave me only has a VGA port.
Mine too, that's why I use a recent monitor with Hdmi AND an older one with VGA
We had this issue recently
Older machine that at best could use DVI, but the monitor was a sexy large 1440p
The PC couldn't be replaced because it's the newest machine that could still run legacy software
Had to find a dual-dvi cable to make it work
Looked just godawful trying to run a lower resolution
Folks at work didn't believe me that I could tell VGA just by looking at the image but I absolutely can see the analog artifacts
Not the good ones.....
Most recent case was a dvi to hdmi converter I had kept without use for 8 years
Converters are even more important!
I have some decent HDMI -> ethernet and DVI -> ethernet extenders I've been holding onto for 10 years now.
The moment I get rid of them will be the moment we decide to wire up a projector on the opposite side of the room from the surround receiver.
Lpt: most of those adapters are reversable because DVI to hdmi only changes the connector, not the signal . Vga ones are not at all though since they're actually converting the signal so make sure to get the right one.
Did not know that, thank you.
I still use one in my set up because 2 of my monitors are old
Ah yes, the old "box o' random cables". The junk drawer of the pc world.
Need an hdmi cable? check the box.
Need a vga to dvi adapter? check the box.
Need a sata cable? check. the. box.
I'm a proud owner of a DP to VGA adapter for some reason that has eluded me so far. But that thing stays in the box.
Anybody need my Palm Pilot sync cable?
The second you throw it away, you'll need it. That's just how it works.
A lot of modern servers are VGA still. I have a two year old Dell that doesn't have anything else for the display connection.
Correct, this may be because server rooms in corporate environments invariably have 90s CRT monitors and 20 year old kvms still bossing the show.
I held onto an IDE to sata adapter for ages. Then as if dreams come true my brother-in-law actually asked me if I could get some photos off an old IDE drive for him. Imagine my shattered disappointment when the adapter was not even working anymore.
My dad is such a guy, and he is the reason I could revive the ol' Wii, PS2, and Windows 95 PC.
My dad's the same with almost anything, he you need an Amstrad? Yeah there was still an Amstrad in his attic till a few years ago, honestly it amused me seeing it, I hadn't a clue how it worked even had the printer for it, it was like looking at fossils.
He is also the sort to keep coffee jars filled with nails and screws and just all sorts of tools.
I was talking about hanging a huge ass mirrors I got for free told him about my new mirrors and he was like "I've got the stuff to hang them."
If I need anything, I check to see if he has it.
VGA is still in wide common use. But typically either a commercial use or grandmas house
My mother threw out my cords last week, I can’t believe the classic blunder actually happened to me, thankfully she told me before she threw out the garbage and I got her to get them back for me.
Getting rid of cords is a sin
I only throw them out once they break, except for one hdmi cable with exposed wires, for reasons.
As far as cards go, I've got a few kicking around the spare parts box. A VGA card, a sound card (of all things), a few serial and USB cards. But I only have two of each kind of cable, bundled bound and in a tube ready for finding and using. My big Rubbermaid tub of spares is organized and easy to dig through, though the Tupperware full of adaptors is a bit chaotic.
Never throw out adaptors. Never throw out media readers.
I found my MFM card along with a few Multi I/O cards last week.
My rule is, gear that still sold today, keep pretty much all spare cables.
Anything over 10 years old in terms of spec or connector type, keep one of the best condition cables labeled just in case.
You never know when someone you know is going to be like "hey, I have this old camcorder with this important stuff on it but I need the cable and that old firewire etc. is useful for 60 mintues.
Oh I feel this one. So I had to have a reckoning with myself over bulk cords. I decided to do a soft sort and bulk recycling. Went from 2 massive totes of pc cables and outdated parts to one box of cords only keep one of each cord I had a port of in the house and a few I just wouldn't part with.
hol up i have 4 dp port 3 hdmi but no VGA!!!!
Tbh, I want vga male to hdmi male for years now but I'm putting it aside
Make sure you get an active one with a chip in it, not one of the scam passive ones which absolutely won't work under any circumstances.
Yeah, I made that mistake. Went back and got a VGA to displayort one that works fine though.
Literally no idea what that means
There are "active" ones with a tiny chip in them which turn the analogue vga end's signal into a digital HDMI one. There are also cheaper "passive" adapters which are just a bunch of metal contacts forcing the analogue signal into a hdmi plug, and these ones won't do anything. They get cheaply manufactured by scammers who know that they will sell to people who don't know any better.
I see, thank you very much for your time!
I put it off for a few years now but I'll keep in mind to do a little research before buying adapters from now on, thank you!
Happy to help mate!
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I have soooo many cables, all neatly wrapped, labeled and stored and I've used them once in the last 5 years when I needed a dvi-d to test a Korean monitor
I do IT for an office in a small business. VGAs everywhere. It's the one constant that seems to work with all monitors and all computers.
Unless either one was made in the last 5 years
Back in 2016 or 2017 a guy was throwing out old video stuff. Most of it ruined, but I caught a gold plated SCART cable. My girlfriend called me a hoarder. Right now I'm wating for a gscart clone to arrive so I could connect all my RGB and RGB modded 90's consoles. Jokes on her, my cable hoarding is now benefiting my retro console hoarding :D
Then you be me and realize how much simpler your life would have been if you had just gotten hd retrovision component cables instead, but I'm on an extron crosspoint and not a gscart, so I have to breakout all my scart cables to BNC and back again
(Sometimes) benefit of living in Europe: SCART is way more common than component and virtually any TV sold in the 90's and 00's have it (including LCD TV's), no need to convert it to anything :D
r/nostalgia
Or the PCs and monitors at work 🤣
"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ALL THIS CLEANING? ARE WE SO VAIN!"
-Captain Whacky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BVMCz8vjsg
We use them all the time in the Electrical Engineering Lab where I work. Lots of our machines require simple command line displays only and you can buy low resolution monitors that run on vga on the cheap. If raspberry pics had a vga port we would be using even more of them.
That's way too organized to be a proper cord box
If you don't have a big box of computer cords that are never going to get used then I don't want any of your so called computer advice, thank you very much.
It's still a perfectly cromulent cable. 1080 at 60hz. My relatively new entertainment laser projector only has 2 HDMI and a VGA. So the VGA comes in handy.
As a CRT user... yes and no. I have one extra VGA cable, and I threw out the rest. That's enough.
My ex tried to get me to throw out my 4 old TV set sized cardboard boxes of network cables, power supplies, whatever the fuck else leads that I've been hoarding for the last 20 years.
Completely stood my ground on that one.
Imagine the smugness I felt months later when she asked do we have a power cable for this random electric device?
Well, it just so happens..
I feel personally attacked.
Relatable
I know what’s coming. I can tell ya
I'm assuming you have agp cards as well?
Woahhhhhh I thought I only did this
Fun game; hide your box of cables at your friends house!
The displayport to vga adapter.
In the summer, my wife made me give my extra one to her aunt. I had to buy another one last month because I ended up needing it. Lol
ikr! and when u need it it's not there.
i needed a VGA cable to troubleshoot a jellyfin server im trying to set-up, its fixed now but jesus christ was i looking hard for a cable.
I still use a premium gold plated VGA cable for school. Projector still uses it as input.
Lol I never throw away my GT 610 (passively cooled) because of this logic, never know when it may come in handy
Yall joke but we can’t find the charger for my dad’s old red Sanyo now so my sister and I can’t play the Dracula side scroller we loved
Think of the (now adult) children!!!!
I still have PS2 adapters for some reason.
My wife made me prune my cable box. I ended up getting rid of a good portion of them. 2 weeks later my wife’s monitor power cord got chewed up by the dog. I had a spare… it was one that got thrown out. I’ll never have to throw cables away again.
Only one bin of cables? Amateur.
in the offiec environment, VGA is still very prevalent.
I work in IT/systems engineering, and everything here is still vga, dvi, ps/2 etc
my second monitor uses vga :(
same
Still have HD15 to 5xBNC. You never know.
Sometimes I think back to all the dongles I never used.... to this day, I still don't know what s-video even was.
My work just provided new monitors that are dvi only, but our docks are DisplayPort and hdmi, and no adapters, so this is no joke to me.
This is real life 😹
Within a week of throwing out that box you will need three of the cables from it
Don’t forget that Svideo cable
My secondary monitor still uses VGA. Why pay for two good monitors when your secondary is relegated pretty much exclusively to game wikis and youtube?
I work in IT VGA becomes useful every now and again. Even if it's just a temporary monitor for testing
Actually needed a VGA to HDMI converter the other day, way more of a pain in the ass to find on amazon than I thought
I have a monitor that only works with a VGA cord.
Ok but I did need a VGA cord recently and was damn happy I squirrelled one away
my monitor uses VGA. the only reason i use it because when i was building my pc i had no other monitor. it works well so im not replacing it.
Imma be honest, I think I'm more terrified of the implication that it isn't 1999, "Right now". Like does this imply time regression? Are we going to reach a point where we will just simply start going backwards in time?
When china invades Taiwan technology from 1999 will be invaluable as we get thrown back to the stone age after the chip factories get destroyed
I still have a VGA to DVI adapter for a monitor that I don’t have. Anyone need?
i still use VGA for my pfsense firewalls when i need to connect to console
Needed one yesterday, Friends pc didn’t give picture so I gave him a vga cable to test his onboard.
I used two this weekend, home server and pihole
Just spoke to a co-worker who is needing one to be able to switch her monitor between her work PC and home PC!
Too Many Cables: https://youtu.be/w84scgeXB5c
Can confirm
We got brand new Lenovo servers at work. They only have VGA. I have no idea why. But it's caused issues because nobody has VGA cables here.
Rule of thumb for me is if it's an old cable (vga, serial), then I'll keep ONE really long version of it. Just in case. The others can go away or be donated.
I have a server rack, so I always need at least one VGA cable or VGA KVM around
I still have 2 VGA monitors taking up space on my dresser. I know they'll probably never be used again, but you never know.
I aim to have a box full of weird adapters and wires so that in 2067 I can put up a BetaMax tape on whatever big screen hologram digitizer bullshit exists and show the youngins the shit I never actually had to deal with cause that round of the format wars was done by the time I could.process shit
i finally sent some old hardware from the late 90's early 00s to the recycling center. give me another decade or 3 before i'm ready to surrender the cables...
I hoard those because I usually cut off the connectors and use the cables in miscellaneous projects with electronic components.
Gotta save this junk.
A machine went down at work, it used the old 5-pin DIN (NOT 6-pin PSU) for a mouse.
And I still had one at home, saved the day
All of my spare cords were thrown out while I was away
I had to BUY one last week for a friend, simply because I didn't have one anymore in my stash.
I was really upset over that.
Bought a new monitor, has hdmi amd vga ports, manufacturer provided 1 hdmi cable, had a spare vga cable, connected personal laptop with Hdmi and office laptop with vga in order to switch effortlessly
Tbh they make for pretty solid tazers, just vot zapped by one the other week and it really caught me off guard.
Cords are important. You never know when youll need an outdated cord for a niche peripheral
My company (retail, UK) hasn't updated their IT since '96. The tech guy is a legend.
'I love serial ports dude. Shit never breaks. Fuck USB.'
Hey that's me
I currently have a dual monitor setup of a 2560x1440 with a DP1.2 port, and a 1440x900 with a DVI-D port.
1440x900 with VGA port is in reserve just in case I don't feel like spending $400 when one of the others breaks.
I still kept a sealed and unused thick ass pata hdd cable i took from an retail am3 mobo. Not sure why im still keeping it🤣
I keep 2-3 I dont need any more than that and chances are I wont need but one at a time, no more hording useless wires. Now hdmi cords I need but never have.
I'm incredibly annoyed my £2000 pc doesn't have any VGA port for my CRT.
I used to be like this. Boxes and totes full of old computer and electronic crap, cuz "you never know".
I got tired of having so much clutter around and the reality is if I ever actually need one of those old, rare or random cables or parts then I can just buy one, usually pretty cheap on Amazon or eBay, but that's rarely happened.
Mayday, mayday! I've been directly hit!
You’ll need two of them, the day after you finally throw them out.
I use them at work all the time. A bunch of customers have existing setups with VGA, works just fine for office applications
My work finally cleared this stuff out of our labs. I'm talking pallets of vga cables, PS2 mice and keyboard, etc
We still have a win xp machine because.its the only way to build our 16 bit binaries
I don't keep many power cables in my box (with the exception of a couple universal power cables and Micky mouse ear powers).
Most are USB extenders, HDMI, VGA, DVI, DP, mini DP a few wired mice and keyboards...
(Everything I need to use a desktop with no cables provided)
Cable hoarding, the struggle is real.
Is it sad I still use vga
My cord bin is getting out of hand. But yes I do need those 17 micro usb cables, you never know!
You always need the old cables a week after you throw them out
As someone who was just looking for a usb-a to mini usb... fuck you past me for not thinking ahead and throwing one in the bin-o-cables.
As someone still on 1080, I unironically prefer vga over hdmi.
Shoot me.
i use an old lcd monitor as secondary, it only has vga, and i dont plan getting a new one, it works just fine
Depending on your job (specially nowadays with many companies going remote) you might need them if they give you an older laptop. My wife borrowed a monitor from her office but then the crappy work laptop stopped working so we had to go to best buy and get a cheap vga to hdmi cable so that we could use the monitor
I have several drawers full of old tech and defunct cable modem. I wish I knew where to recycle them
Oh my god I have the same IKEA basket where I keep all my cords in
The only VGA cord I have is the one plugged into my VGA only monitor.
I know my 14.4 modem will come in handy one day. Sucker is fast!
So many built in projectors still use vga. I've run into it many times giving seminars were the only plug in at the podium was vga -_-
"I want to use the Playstation 1 (for some unknown reason) - have you got the display cable?"
😏 Why yes, yes I do.
(This happened last week, hoard away IMO... but maybe 10 VGA cables might be too many ¯\(ツ)/¯ )
Still using mine cause budget setup
I'm using one for my old minecraft server
I had to use a vga to VGA cable last week for an NVR!! Digital equipment corporation never dies.
I have lost count of the times I needed a damn VGA cable, 15 years after they should have been banished.
I still use them they do come in handy especially when dealing with old PCs
Guilty.
We still use them in our office. We still buy monitors that come with VGA ports and Dell computer your buy brand new still come with VGA! It has to be one of the longest surviving tech next to fax machines.
VGA chords will get you around HDCP black screens when using MacBooks.
So if you're trying to share copyrighted videos over Zoom (which is tooootally illegal and you shouldn't) you can use VGA because it's analog and doesn't transfer the HDCP protocol. It doesn't always work, but it's a good troubleshoot... Especially for MacBooks.
I feel so fucking attacked.....
so everyone has this box
My second monitor that I brought home from work is from 2007 and is VGA and DVI only, but it works just fine for it's job.
I used a VGA cable two days ago. Take THAT giant box or random cords.
Was guilty of this until I set free that last few that I will never need a couple of weeks ago (along with some IDE cables...).
Now to address the growing pile of archived USB cables in all formats and lengths (-A, -B, mini-, micros, USB-3, etc) that may come in handy some day...
I destroyed my cord collection last week. It hurt my soul.
Just used vga to fix a usff pc because DP wouldn't work with the memory change
Would have been funnier without making it condescending towards women.
Still have a few S-Video cables in my display cable drawer.
I was still using one on my second monitor up until a few months ago
...servers still use them
Just found five in a box under my bed, before seeing this post lol
was digging through two crates today to find a different cable and had to go through dreadlocks of all kinds of display cables acquired over the decades...will keep them in case i need to connect 14 monitors with vga and or dvi
I used a VGA cable yesterday. I still think me having 7 of them is a bit much, but I still can't part with them.
My laptop takes VGA!! I use it to connect to my ancient external monitor during long projects for that extra real estate.
I get the sentiment here....but vga is kinda the lowest common denominator for display connections. Almost every display will have it as an option and it can prove vital if you have to fall back to integrated graphics....
Lmao no way this is a universal experience. I have so many VGA and DVI-D cables sitting around from my old PC.
Obviously you need one for the bad moniter
This is so relatable in my household 😂
As someone who works with scientific equipment older than your parents... this is 1965
My brand new monitor still uses VGA :(
You actually need Vga's for some controllers like the Logosoft 0BA5 or an Easy Controller
A professor of mine had a monitor just last quarter that had only a vga output. Couldn’t find a chord for it.
I got a work from home job that required a vga cable for the “PC” they sent me. I had to go buy one at walmart!
I had kept a 3.5" floppy drive and its ribbon cable "just in case" for over a decade. I finally threw it out, and less than a month later a family member came to me with a case of floppies they found and was hoping I could see what was on them.
I still have an s video cord that ive never actually used
Just got a vga monitor for free and since I was saving a couple HDMI - vga cables I was prepared.
I’ve actually thrown away vga cords and needed them. My laptop has a hdmi and a vga port and I have two external monitors connected to it.
It wouldn't' be an issue if they would learn to compromise and not creep the boundary al la Russia style.
I know I don't need the cord right now, but one day you'll want to watch some old VHS of your parents getting married or whatever and I'll need it then. Sure maybe don't need to store it under the TV or nearby, but if I let you move it to a junk box and stow it in the attic or garage, you're going to then dump it next time there is a spring cleaning and not say anything cause "you never use it."
It doesn't hurt for it to sit around out of sight. IT DOESN'T FUCKING HURT!
This is me.
VGA and dvi both can go burn in the fires of hell. Thumbscrews suck.
I just went through my box of cords and cut in half for spring cleaning 🧽
Basically my laptop and my school's yee yee ass projector. Thing still uses VGA and my laptop didn't have a port. Needed a converter so bad.
You never know when your belt break
imagine needing a seperate monitor (iMac gang)
Yeah but what am I supposed to do with all of these S/PDIF cables?
*Laughs in business sector where VGA is still used on 90% of workstations*
Me who still uses VGA commonly and pretends this is why...
Clutching my multiple DB9 null modem cables
These are my things, DON'T TOUCH MY THINGS
Guilty.
Honestly, does anyone have a creative, organized way to store cables?
Everybody has a box/basket of cables, if you don’t have it are you even computer geek
DVI cables too.
I have a huge tub full of cords but even I got rid of my VGAs years ago.
I always have use for VGA cables. Then again I not only collect old computers, I also have a couple servers where VGA is the only relevant video output.
This was me last week, pulling out some obscure cord I decided to keep ten years ago and ended up needing for something recently.
VGA was the shit well past 1999
I just used one! My neighbor had an old laptop with a broken screen that needed some files recovered.
It's not like I want them. They just come with every computer part I get. Like my M.2, got one and I'm still figuring out how to install it.
2 of my monitors still use VGA lol, have to use an adapter for one of them though
I have to do this for a second monitor at work. VGA to HDMI. I happen to have an adapter since a monitor I had at home happen to need one.
Save it and wait for copper price to go up, then go to one of those recycling places and get some $$.
"...I have no knowledge of these cables."
"So we can throw them out?"
"I didn't say that."
I work in a prison. Everything uses VGA... Everything! All our monitors and computers could use a more modern standard but no... VGA.
If i have to replace another cable because a guard decided to "just unplug and repulg the cable to hard reset the monitor" and bent a pin i am going ham with some cable cutters.
I think we need to build a cord library. We all put our extra cords there and anyone can take one and use it for as long as they need.
Cables and screws I say.
I work as ICT to my organization. I just spent the last 2 days organizing, cleaning and separating a whole lot of old cables from my predecessor. I have 2 bins of VGA cables. I'm pretty sure I don't need them, but I'm scared to throw them out.
I have a box with 2 VGA's, 3 different DVI's, about 20 HDMI's, 10 DP's. Yeah I will absolutely need all of those someday.
VGA "Useless until you chuck it out" then next day suddenly out of the blue need it for a server.
You'd be genuinely surprised how many times we need random pin out cables in a guitar shop hey... For whatever reason, in the 2000s amp companies decided it was time to Jump on that hot commodity that was 15 pin serial cables for their foot controllers... Now that it's 2022 you had better believe i'm gonna keep one if I find it because having to solder one together from parts is a spectacular pain in the ass.
The instant you throw them away you'll need one.
For the dudes that play with server hardware at their house VGA cables are gold.
I do not need to be attacked like this.
I never throw out cables as you never know when it maybe needed.
Dude, I work at an MSP and VGA cables are the most reliable thing to have. Most monitors still have VGA ports, and with new PCs it's a toss up between HDMI and display port. So we always keep VGA and then VGA to HDMI or display adapters.
What technology has regressed over time?
Sega Dreamcast fellas
I have had keeping several VGA cords come in handy so I will never let them go now... You do indeed never know what tomorrow will bring, just might be a need for VGA cords!!!
Send help.
All the cheapest monitors run on VGA.
Actually I use it a lot for testing graphic cards.
Just tossed out a shoe box full of 3.5 floppy disks. Original doom was like 10 disks.
I thew out a lot of cables... and now I cannot find a 6-DIN cable gør my Commodore 64.... aaaaaaaaargh.
legit used a vga cable today to bootleg my sound system together
Me with the cable that came with my 32mb mp3 player I bought in 2005
What do I do with hardware I no longer need though? Feels wrong to just throw it in the trash so it can sit in a landfill for a thousand years.
I have a 300ft long HDMI cable that I got for free. I have absolutely no use for such a thing. But if I ever do need it, it'll be there.
It definitely came in handy for me. When I built my first PC. Had a syncmaster monitor. Thanks to my dad for hoarding cords.
I currently use a VGA monitor cause my dad had one just lying around and it was better than waiting even longer to get a hdmi.
I plan to move across country twice in the next year. I took a week off to pack and I spent way too much time sitting with my box of cords thinking for each one individually whether the likelihood of me needing it, outweighs the cost of moving it.
Good song by Traffic
this. i have a MODERN DAY laptop(2019), with a friggin vga port! like wtf? who still has these lying around!?
Going through all my cords right now: 10 psu/monitor cords 23 120mm fans 46 USB - micro 12 USB - mini 8 USB - B 15 USB extensions 18 Pre-made cat5
Didn't bother counting the vga, rca, or coax but there was a lot.
Oh, and a truly silly amount of wall-warts / power adapters. In the 30 range.
My office still uses VGA cords
VGA is a bad example.
lol im using a Display port to VGA adapters on at least 2 systems at my house because of monitor input limitations
at work they are also everywhere for the same resons
I was able to build a whole new media PC for my living room for just the price of a new ATX case because I kept components and cables from various systems over the years.
I even just by chance saw a discarded PC left outside when I threw out my old mattress, scavenged the PSU from inside, then tested it out.
Whole media PC for just $60 CAD.
That PSU died off after about 4 months, but I needed a new PSU for my main rig anyway, so then I migrated the current PSU into it with no issue.
So, yeah, PC building is fun. lol
When I got my new PC last year with a RTX3080 I was yet to get a new monitor, at that time I was still using an old 766p VGA monitor. So I used a VGA to HDMI converter with my 3080, without any shame.
I still have really nice flat-panel IPS monitors with VGA input. I started learning FPGA development a couple years ago. One of the tasks was a simple VGA driver. Did I have a VGA cable for this? You know I did!
my second monitor is a 600x800 vga and Im not changing it
God.. I so need to do go thru and clean out stuff; I have so many old external hard drives.. random ass cables.. drives cages from who knows what build. I was looking thru the basement and I still have a Corsair 800D case and an original Alienware Area 51 Dragon Case from before Dell owned them that I hung on to for some reason.. think I still have the old binder that came with it down there too.
Sure, having a couple vga cords can be handy. But what keep more than that?
Look. Look. Listen. I set up my wife's office with two monitors and only needed HDMI cords for the monitors, computer, and nintendo switch.
But with my office, after getting rid of all of my vga adapters and cords, I had to go slinking into the store to get a fucking HDMI to VGA cables so that I could put my monitors for my server, work pc, personal pc, and my own nintendo switch.
Hold onto those cords, guys. Just..... Hold onto them.
I'd only have one monitor currently if it weren't for a VGA cord I had laying around
Pretty sure that OP snuck into my home and took a picture of my cord box.
I work at micro center (its the worst place in the world do not work here.) People come in everyday looking for all sorts of old cables. You would be surprised hoe many people don't even know what a HDMI Cable is.
2 of every cable that isn't in use on my system.
Backdated as long as I've had a computer without buying more cords to back fill the older ones.
There's retro gaming applications today!
I literally bought a VGA cable on Amazon this month to make use of a second monitor I had laying around.
I was pissed I couldn't find one after going through my box of cables
Just saying I had to piece together pcs from the 90s last year to interface with a computer running an industrial facility that hadn't updated since 3g was cutting edge.
i still use these...
Holy hell this perfect. I have two baskets like that lol just all cables
My step bro in a single meme 😭😂
I still use vga…
I randomly needed a vga cable recently I'm so glad I had one around
I have so many VGA cables still in their plastic sleeves I could become distribution center for Amazon.
My dvi port stopped working recently and had to buy an HDMI to VGA adapter, my 10 yr old VGA cable still working with the adapter..
I'm hiding an unused dell computer from 2002 in the shed. I'm not allowed to bring any more computers in the house.
I'm sure the old ISA sound cards I have will be useful some day.
Send them to russia, they are gonna beed them soon
I swear I got 30 micro usb cables scattered around my house
OMG. I have that exact container full of wires at home! LMAO
Does joker laugh
They wouldn't get it homer
Everyone laughs at the box of old cables, until their monitor breaks and they need a VGA cable plus converter so they can use that old screen in the loft they forgot about it.
Yeah, ok, you got me.
But who do people come to when they need a standard 3 hole power cord? Some of my cords may have come from 486's and Pentium 1 PC's, still going strong.
I feel seen and understood.
My servers all use VGA.
I still have a start cable in my cable box
Gotta save all the boxes too
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks like this!😁
Servers still use it so if you want bleeding edge tech, use vga
The HP monitor that I bought in 2020, which is 1080p and has both HDMI and DisplayPort, has a VGA port and audio input on the back. Just in case
cries in using a vga monitor
I feel attacked.
I officially have a box of cables in my closet, I finally made it dad.
Wife came across my bag-o-cords just last weekend. My first reaction was an emotional one. I've had that green swim team back full of random cables for so long I didn't want to think of the fact that I didn't need it anymore. Cables are so much more uniform now with USB. Then I Marie Condo'd that shit.
To be fair alot of machinery in manufacturing that is older is still in use and within the past year old vga cables have saved me down time.
I don't have anywhere to plug this in, but what does that matter?
laughs in 2010 era laptop solely keeping VGA alive
I used one vga 3 days ago... Xd
I legit looked EVERYWHERE in my garage for a fucking VGA cord tonight to plug in a very old NAS.
No luck.
We needed one to test to make sure a new DP to VGA adapter was good, and we didn't have one in our lab. Our walk up help desk happened to have one thankfully.
so many shitty black usb cables for phones/accessories.
I’ve moved across oceans and, to this day, my wife keeps teasing me about prioritizing cables over clothes.
Jokes on you. I tossed a bunch of old cables and then a month later was building my home lab server and guess what, needed vga cables I threw out
We have massive Ewaste bins here where I work. Where people throw out old servers, large screen tvs, playstaions, xboxs, projectors etc etc, you name it. Anything that still works I will keep for sure but I will hoard all the cables lol.
I had a boss like this once... kept everything, he was a hoarder in IT. I had to organize 30+ VGA cables among many USB printer cables, all kinds of extra power cables etc. It was an absolute nightmare.
7/10. IT manager here. This tracks. No matter how many antiquated cords I toss, I ALWAYS seem to have three boxes more. You know...just in case.
You never know when you’ll need an optical to 3.5mm adapter when the only thing you own with either connector is your desktop pc that has both.
I used a VGA cable to hook up my second monitor. Money is tight.
You need the cord the day after it’s thrown away
My entire life, I thought this was a home theater hobby problem. It seems there are more variables than I though.
As a person in IT who works in a datacenter, let me tell you vga cables are never going away. All the servers use a VGA port
I have about 30 ethernet cables but nothing super old
Unless you have servers. Then it's just vga!
i feel attacked.
No jokes I have 3x giant 4 foot by 4 foot box crates filled with old wires from electronics of my past. They are physically unliftsbld since it’s pure copper weight and these things are stacked.
There are so many cables you couldn’t find one if you’re life depended on it, but I refuse to throw it out! They feel like my electronic journey life trophies for the last 30+ years of buying crap.
i have a vga monitor so yes keep them old tech is becoming popular again
Well ya see when ever it comes is can you put 2 cables together. Like a VGA and hdmi. Or rs232 and hdmi. That is the knowledge I want to have
I find VGA to generally be more reliable than HDMI. I would never use it for my gaming PC but whenever I work on server junk its my go to.
I'm currently looking for a vga cable lol I'm setting up my old pc in my living room to pirate the MLB season and that pc doesn't have hdmi. Luckily my 60 inch TV has VGA input. So now I'm cursing myself for getting rid of my old cables. Don't make my same mistake guys hoarde all your cables forever!
Apparently we all think tomorrow will bring yesterday.
Maybe sunshine, maybe the rain.
But as for me ill wait and see
i have a whole drawer full of miscellaneous cables lol
My monitor has a vga I use for my PC so I can also keep my switch and ps5 plugged in
Our basement flooded a couple years ago, and I took it as an opportunity to throw most of the boxes of junk I'd been hoarding for 20+ years.
I filled half of a ten-yard construction dumpster with old PC parts ands software. There were a few towers and monitors in there, but the VAST majority of it were boxes of cables that I didn't even realize I still had.
There is rule when you keep it you don't need it as fast as you throw it away the occasion like fucking bitch comes your way .
It's all fun and games until you have a server with only native VGA output.
My wife “helped” organise my cables box once by throwing away anything I had more than one of.
Don’t come crying to me the next time you need an 8 ft mini USB cable.
You really never know if you might end up needing it for something. Ever find something old you wanted to use only to find out you couldn't anymore? This is for that situation.
It's not taking up much space. Odds are you have lots of stuff that's less potentially useful taking up more space.
I threw out loads of cables due to moving, and I had to buy a vga cable the other day to sort out my media server.
The indignity of it all.
I finally did away with my RCA cables. Mostly. Okay, two of them. But it's a lot better than before. Now I can close the bin they were in
I kept an extra internal DVD rom for about 10 years in my storage closet. My current desktop CD Rom died last week when I needed it. Glad I kept that spare one.
It’s only a matter of time before we struggle to get yhe raw ingredients for electronics and someone will be going round with an old Tesla running on daisy chained laptop batteries.
I'm a seller/refurbisher, and I still have all types of cords, HDMI to micro HDMI, VGA to DVI, HDMI to DisplayPort (DP), DP to mini DP, Thunderbolt to DP, etc ,etc, but I'm always needing a freaking laptop charger, either the voltage or the Amperare varies a lot (Note: Never trust a multi voltage power adapter they suck).
Had a big as bag of assorted cables I hauled around for years. Crown jewel was 50 foot coax.... Moment I was forced to get rid of it was the moment of course we needed that fucker.
I either trow them away or cut them open to get at the pristine wires that never saw a kink or a byte.(duh, its analog..)
I needed one just last week.
Remember to be careful about the PSU cables, you can't reuse those
Yeah, no, work gives out the shittiest monitors to use. It's an absolute must for multiscreen setups
My SO has two modes:
"God that pile of cords is horrible, what could you ever use any of those for??"
And
"Honey do you have a lightning to USB cable in that box anywhere?"
I seriously recommend you get a GTX 750ti, or a vega 64, before it's too late. ARM is about to take over everything, and when it does, technology will only get worse and worse over time.
I have 2 in use in my house right now.
I finally got rid of my box. Thankfully never have regretted that decision (yet).
i have 3 milk crates FULL of cords and i find myself digging in them finding that 1 gem needed for whatever situation ALL the time. the amount of money i saved just hording cords has MORE than payed for the storage space for 3 crates!
Listen. LISTEN. That Performa 550 is a PIECE. OF. HISTORY. You laugh now. But when my rig dies and you need to look up tiny videos of the Apollo missions on Encarta, you'll thank me.
cheap monitors and servers still use VGA
My big bucket of cords has saved my ass multiple times. All cords go in the cord bucket, patent pending.
Brought my work laptop on vaca with me. Tried to stream NHL to my tv last night until I noticed this brand new HP laptop has a vga instead of HDMI-out. WTF?!
Wow. That wasn’t an attack I expected lol.
I guess I should just throw out that tangled mess of a bin
Throw away that cable, I fucking dare you
Won't be 24 hours before you need it
The TRS-80 is waiting for the inevitable collapse of society.
Worst case scenario they still make for decent rope.
I still have a VGA monitor I bought for $80, 8 years ago. It's currently using some kind of jank VGA-DP cable and the screen randomly goes black sometimes, but for a second monitor, I'm using it until it dies baby
I have an obscure proprietary AC/DC adapter which only works on one ancient laptop I have in a bin in the attic. I still keep it around because who knows when it might come in handy?
I have still sealed cables for connections that haven't been used in decades. I may accidentally time travel with my cable tote, you don't know.
This post has given me the incentive to start throwing out some junk.
Comedian Marc Maron has an excellent bit about his box full of wires.
That someday in the post-apocalyptic future, some guy is going to run to his driveway waving a 1st gen Apple Ipod around begging anyone for a charging cable, and Marc will say "yeah buddy I got you come on in" and together they figure out how to survive.
The only aging tech I have is an early 2000s computer that has a BBS on it (think Reddit pre-internet where you had to dial on a phone to connect your computer to my computer). It ran for over a decade but when the internet arose, people slowly stopped calling. After a month of no calls, I powered it down and never turned it on again.
I still have it, tho. It may be something someone digs from the ashes of our civilization someday, and it might have some kind of insight.
I kept one single VGA cable just in case I need it for legacy hardware, and tossed the rest. It's ok to keep one legacy cable. It's not ok to board ALL the legacy cables.
Today i found out that the sd card reader on my laptop is broken. in the back of a drawer i found an external sd reader, without it's cable. a usb mini b cable. a cable that i haven't seen in years BUT I HAD ONE IN THE VABLE DRAWER
Lmfao I have the same exact basket and yup it's full of cables
... i keep a single vga cord because I think it's neat.
I was deployed in 2009 with the j6. I was cleaning out a connex and found some zip drives. Was going to throw them out and my section chief told me to keep them. 3 months later a colonel needed one.
My drawer of old cables and adapters has saved me multiple times from having to make new purchases. I will never get rid of it until those connections are not used anymore by anything!
I finally got rid of all my old cables I've been collecting since building pics in the 80s
I was very recently in a situation giving a training in an underfunded non-profit and yeah they only had VGA. I feel like this meme really undersells the importance of the dongle. And can we all just take a minute to have a little giggle at the word dongle? Never forget to take your morning giggle.
Plenty people still using VGA. a lot of my clients use them in their monitors at work. Not a big deal for word and Excel.
I literally have 2 SCSI cables in my box. The only device I have that is SCSI compatible is a PowerBook 145B, and that used the odd square connector, not the 25-pin. Why do I have these things? Why can I don't get rid of them, like my IDE or Floppy cables?
Every single time I clean the cords box out I end up needing something from it a month later. Every single time.
Can honestly say that I used a vga cable in 2022.
Only one container of 90s cords? What is this, the minor leagues?
Lol I had one in my car and it saved me yesterday, NEVER know when you'll need one!
I still have a PS-2 to USB adapter just in case.
I use a DP to VGA adapter for my 2nd monitor and an HDMI to VGA for my switch. Both work great
Exactly! I have 2 VGA cords and I’ve had to use them a couple times in the last 10yrs!
I’m usually the person my friends turn too when they need an odd cable or power cord cause I keep all my old cords and parts for a long time!
Anyone interest in an X-Fi sound card (PCI…no x after that) with front panel that fits where you mount a CD drive, or a 560ti, or a 9800gtx+, or TWO 7800GT’s?! 🤣
It's not 1999 anymore but VGA is still relevant. Recently all the craze is 144hz GaMiNg monitor with gsync and other syncing technologies. What many don't understand is high end CRT's, such as the GDM-FW900, can resolve 1280x800 @ 145hz. I find 1920x1200 @ 95hz to look better than 4k displays and i'm not alone. CRT's don't have pixels and there is no grid them in a fixed resolution. Since there is a defined grid of pixels on flat panels, that are jagged looking, the solution is to keep increasing the resolution to make them smaller and less noticeable. If content is displayed that isn't the fixed native resolution on flat panels, it has to be scaled. Flat panels try so hard to look like CRT's for a reason. It's a shame SED displays never seen the light of day. It would make all other display technologies look inferior like CRT's do. The best way I can describe playing Black Mesa at 145hz on the FW900 is like your viewing the game through a window. Seeing is believing.
Have two. Never know when you need a spare spare.
So long as I have video cards and monitors that have vga, I'll be keeping my vga cords, thank you very much.
And dva, and dp, and HDMI. Oh and parallel cables . Never know when you'll need to hot swap an Xbox 1 hard drive!!
Litterly needed to use a VGA cord when I upgraded my system,
I still have parallel port printer cables….
Tomorrow may bring about 99BC the way our world is going
I’d like to think when society collapses and junkers are looting my house, they get a bit excited some of the cords might do something for their home made radio.
I still have one of my monitors hooked up using a VGA cable
Worked on a computer recently that only had VGA. I had none and felt shame
This meme perfectly sums up my dad
Lmao this is me
My DVI cables got reused. You never know
We are moving to Germany from the Netherlands. I've bitten the bullet and taken boxes of cables to the recycle centre. Bugger tomorrow.
When the apocalypse comes and someone needs a power cable to a laptop, I will have a fine selection to offer.
I do this for years and then be it the week after I throw it away
Last week we cleared one of our offices and I got one of the programmers desktop pc. I was just now trying to connect it to my monitor and found out that he ordered the pc without hdmi, only vga. And here I stand with no box of cables, needing my vga.
Tbh i sometimes fix a pc that have vga or dvi and no hdmi or display ports, it's great to have them around
Tbh i sometimes fix a pc that have vga or dvi and no hdmi or display ports, it's great to have them around
My neighboor actually needed one recently cause she has an old work Laptop and they tend to only have vga. So keeping one actually came in handy
Do you have a Parallel Port Zip Drive in your PC parts box? Because I'm sure that thing still works and will come in handy some day in the future.
My boss threw away all the vga cables he could find. So when we needed another one we had to seaech for an hour or so. The citrix terminals we use still use vga so yeah we kinda need some of those
MY 2016 Supermicro motherboard only has VGA out, and I'm OK with that.
I bought a few newer cables and finally theres thinner hdmi and displayport cables hallelujah no more fucking ugly thick ass cables
I recently had to take a vga cable to my brother. Keep all the cables. If you don't use it one day you can cut the ends off for the wire and use it in a project.
Not chords but old photos/screenshots/videos for me.. I had a huge folder of those that I have collected/backed up from over a couple years.. In the last couple years, never did I need anything from there, ut was basically junk files and was taking up space so I deleted the entire folder. Just one week after I deleted it, I needed one of my screenshots and a couple of videos, which were part of the folder I deleted :P
I actually have a basket almost identical to this with cables in it lol
Sometimes it's obvious to predict what's next
Still have an S video cable in a box dated 2010.
My display's been turning violet recently and i think it's because of the vga, can i borrow one
However a vga code is still being used in current computer systems
VGA is still relevant on modern hardware when you need to hook a physical monitor up to most servers. Also still nice to have for troubleshooting, high end stuff often still has internal VGA. It's also still relevant at a lot of workplaces unfortunately, a good amount of people are still running 10+ year old monitors that came with vga and dvi with newer-ish computers that only have hdmi and vga, and a whole heck of a lot of signs and displays still use them.
Also VGA and all the old cables are still very much lurking in the industrial world. 9 and 15 pins d subs galore, every now and again you bump into SCSI, ga damn serial over RJ11
My deprecated technology drawer and the several VGA cords (some even in their original included-with-monitor packaging) in it take offense.
In this situation right now.
I must have thrown out a previous mini-USB cord thinking, "Nothing I have uses this. It's all micro or type C."
Sure enough, I found an old backup hard drive that uses it. Now I'm asking all my techy friends and family if they have a spare mini-USB before I go and buy one🤦♂️
Laugh now, but I'm going to be the most popular guy on the block when SCSI comes back.
You can keep 1, you probably don't need 10.
Whoa, I just watched that episode for the first time yesterday!
My dad has two backup boxes of random cables at work in case the box at home doesn’t have what he needs. (Owns his own business)
Just a month ago, I had a sudden need for a VGA cable and didn't have one because, "I'm never going to need a VGA cable again."
Got some free servers, VGA only.
a Sega CD can use every cable at once lmao
My SCSI to 25 pin parallel cable's day will come as soon as I throw it out.
I'm keeping my ps/2 keyboard for sure though as long as I've got a working machine to plug it into. It's saved me a couple times now when usb didn't work for some reason.
VGA cords are still used religiously for servers
Why is it so hard to throw away cables?
I have worked in IT, it will happen, the day will come.
I don’t throw cables away ever!
I have this bin...
About 30 years ago (roughly...i think) I bought a pc when drives were transitioning from one form to another.
So I had a desktop with a very rare combination of an 8 inch drive and a 5 inch drive.
After a year or two something went wrong and I took it in for repairs. Two weeks or so later I was told it was ready and after work I went to pick it up. A guy went out the back and brought me my repaired pc and I signed for it.
While I was waiting I had seen a guy desperately talking to the other workers. He was holding an 8 inch floppy.
" I just need to transfer this onto a 5 inch drive. I really need this data"
"Sorry mate we can;t do that"
"Please! It has all our company sales on it for a month. We have to have this info!"
"Mate, we don;t even have any 8 inch drives in the shop. We just can;t help you. Maybe you should try another place..."
So here I was, holding the solution to all his problems in my hands. It wouldn't even have taken very long to do the transfer...I think. Back then drives only held a few hundred K or less..
But I hadn;t played with my PC for two weeks, I was tired and wanted to get home.
So I picked up the pc, with the front end (drives) hidden by my stomach, and carried the solution to all his problems past him without him even noticing.
Dude...I'm sorry. I should have helped. I hope you got your data somehow.
I know I'm not the first one who realised they threw away an old cable, and then later needed it so spent a ridiculous amount replacing it.
This time tomorrow
where will we be
I use hdmi to vga From 3080 to monitor
We all know the rule: you won't have any need for the old cable until you throw it away!
S-Video, RJ-45 to USB console cable, serial cables... yeah, I got at least one of each and plenty more of others in a bin.
Two of my monitors are connected through these ports.
So yeah, I need them like all the time.
i still have mine and i'm 23
not gonna lie this happened to me recently when we moved. I needed a cord that I swore we had but probably threw away so I had to scour ebay to find one. never throwing em away again lol.
Lotta office monitors still have vga input and lots of docks still have vga out. I'm set
Oh, I needed a vga-cable really bad this weekend, could not find one.
I see your VGA cable and raise you my 25-pin to 9-pin serial cable.
My WFH pc has 1 display port and 1 VGA. Love the 720 lines of resolution on 1 of my 4K monitors…
Fuck I’m at my mom’s and I was trying to hook up my older MacBook to the TV but the only adapter I could find was a Thunderbolt 2 to VGA
I straight up needed one of these yesterday to plug in a monitor to a sonographer's ultrasound machine. There is still old tech out there functioning and in need of this stuff... You never know when you might need some old cable.
When a DVI chord dies, VGA saves the day. When HDMI cable buggers up, again, VGA will save the day.
Doesn't anyone ever wonder why there are still vga connections on new monitors and even televisions?
It's because VGA is the real MVP, always and forever, amen.
i had a monitor issue last week. i had to have a temporary monitor setup, and you know what cable got used? Mother. Fucking. VGA.
Just used 3 VGA cords and some old monitors I'd been saving for an undetermined project.
I'm happy with it.
I've since run the cords etc so it doesn't look like garbage. This was proof of concept stage.
https://imgur.com/a/8wRwCTC
First one is 2 second video, then some pics of before the swap in of the monitors.
I have a drawer full of cords all the way back to my Amiga 2000.
Hey, you never know!
EXCUSE ME BUT MY HUSBAND IS THE ONE WHO WANTS TO THROW THINGS OUT AND I AM LIKE NO I AM HOARDING MY TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NEXT 2000000 YEARS.
My box of cords was stolen when i was moving before. Felt like they took a small piece of my soul.
For starters. Take them out of the box and coil them. Secure them with rubber band or something. Label. Then shrink wrap anything older than 5-10 years and throw them in the crawlspace or whatever. Anything niche gets its own box and then throw everything else away thats not a spare for stuff you already have.
Recently needed a vga cable for a work conference and felt exceptionally vindicated
Just used my VGA cable over the weekend to setup a new hardware Firewall.
I'm feeling mocked.
One time my old gpu hdmi port dies, vga worked.
Guess who used vga for two years?!
Yeah. This is why I saved my RS232 25 pin null modem cables.
I actually had to fish one of the VGA cables from my stash some months ago.
Was to help someone with an old computer where the original cable was broken.
That feels a little close to the mark...
I work in IT, I hoard everything I can. Last week I had a client need 2 VGA cables and the tub of rescued cables in my trunk saved the day.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
This is supposed to be a joke but welcome to IT in a corporate environment.
me when i have an entire tote container of ball mice with ps/2 cords… oof
I feel personally attacked
My dad has an old printer from 1998. I still can't convince him to toss it. He's not a hoarder by any means but that printer he just hangs on to.
I know VGA isn't the most efficient, but which other cords come with fastening screws as often as it does?
I've needed a VGA cord twice in the last year. Keep the cords!
Need a mini b usb cable suddenly today to power on an old harddrive, I threw away most of my cable stash recently...
Thank god I'm not the only one that hoards the cords and cables 😂 I need to get a better place to store them
Seems stupid at first... But lately... and with electronics shortages.. now seems less stupid
This is awesome. My gpu fried two days ago and I wanted to test my cpu and had to literally buy a vga to see how far the damage went.
I've had a SCART cable for the PS1 my entire life. And 1 year ago I bought a refurbished PS1. So take that suckers! Now I got a spare cable 😇
My school has like 3 HDMI cords, the rest is VGA, we could need some.
I cleaned out my cable stash and recycled dozens of old cables last year. Made sure to keep one or two of each just in case.
Pro tip: put propriety cables for popular vintage electronics on Ebay. Eventually there'll be always someone looking for one
I had that box, then I bought 50 velcro straps on Amazon and actually semi-organized it. It's still a mess, just not a tangled mess.
I keep a tote and put cables in zip-locks, the type written on the front. The wall worts get a bag with the rated voltage, current, and connector written on it. Still have to dig for a specific cable or power supply, but makes it less of a mess and faster.
I still have cables from early 90s era Sun workstations. Giant fucking monitor cables.
I had this exact conversation within the past 48 hours.
I know it’s wrong and I should be ashamed, but I keep all cords around as donors for wire. I do a lot of my own wiring and don’t care about pesky things like “resistance” and “load”.
the most painful purchase I ever made was a computer power cord for my parents. I assumed that they had a couple laying around (because who doesn't?). They didn't, and I seriously considered driving the hour home to not pay for a cable, since I had at least 10 sitting at home for just this emergency.
I kid you not, I actually needed a VGA cord last week. Saving every working cord I’ve ever had paid off.
My second monitor is on a D-Sub(VGA).
Wait till you start hoarding IO shields just in case you ever run into another board with the same layout. Probably will never happen, but I will be prepared if it does happen.
I wish more people stopped using VGA. All the companies I deal with just started using them
Used one with adapters in place of display port on my rig, the cable bin was justified.
cleaning out my home office over the weekend my wife called me a technology hoarder. couldn't even disagree.
Gotta keep them in case. I'm sitting on a VGA to HDMI for some reason
Dude, I desided to wait for a PC part and literaly the next week half the prices for PC parts vere doubled. No joke. If you need something, buy it. Noone knows what tomorrow will bring.
I feel personally attacked right now
I mean, some of those old VGA cards could be handy for use with systems that don’t have an iGPU. They don’t have to be good, they just have to work.
I end up using VGA cables often, since I end up working on older machines often
Same for PS2 keyboard/mouse
IDE cables not so much
I did throw away my box of old cables. Good riddance
Dang. I got rid of my box of wires. Got so tired of lugging it around.
Just tossed a bunch. I'll keep older obscure cables, but no one needs 30 VGA cords. When you open a new business class monitor and it has a DP, HDMI, VGA, and USB a to b cable... Some things tend to get tossed.
At my college we needed to connect to a VGA port to use projectors and do presentations. And I’m ready to bet it’s still the case right now
I requested a new monitor from our internal IT and they only had a VGA to DP adaptor. It was either take that or wait who knows how long.
Good thing I had that VGA cable lying around.
That looks almost identical to my wire boneyard.
It only takes needing one cable one time to justify my lifetime collection!
As someone who is going to spend a lot of today looking for component cables, I wish I had done this lmao
Feel this. I spent about an hour yesterday staring into a box of old A/V and PC cables, wrestling with what to do with them... All of which I'm positive I'll never need again...
I managed to toss about half of them. Baby steps.
This is a sign I should throw out my 10 VGA cables I’ve never once used… then again, what if there’s a nuclear fallout and the one thing I don’t have are enough VGA cables?! No, I think I have to keep them.
I work in corporate it, and they are still the most used by far. There are still huge orders of them every year.
If you can fit all your firewire, vga, and ide cables in a dollar store tote like that you're a rookie. Lol
/s
are you kidding?
no way in hell would my future husband/wife/partner EVER throw a cable away unless it was truely fucked.
theres money in the cables as well as useful-ness, it goes in the cable box.
That one will lock in place.
I stole a VGA to DVI adapter from work the other day. I don't need it at all. But it was tech related thing and it was just there...
Amd when you get rid of you, you'll end up looking for one in the same week.
My IT lab still uses it… Oh and the pcs are some nice intel pentiums with integrated graphics and 720p display!
Me hooking up my Dreamcast: told you!
That one will lock in place.
Used a VGA cable the other day, glad I kept it and the only monitor that still used it.
But what if the aliens invade and all that will save us is finding a cable that can connect to their systems. What then!
Off topic but why is it easier to find vga cables in stores than display or dvi? My computer has a ton of display ports for some reason.
Insert Suprise ceiling mounted projector with a burnt out DVI-port.
Vga saves the day
I needed a 3.5mm to rca cable to hook up to a sound system for my sister in laws wedding. Luckily I still have the one that I got with a gaming chair like 15 years ago
I've got myself a VGA, DVI, hdmi, display and scart cause who knows
I still use a VGA monitor
and you always end up needing it after you’ve kept it for so many years and finally convinced yourself you’ll never need it again
Not only do I have the cable collection, I have that exact crate...
HDMI v3
Throw that shit out. You will never need it again. Out with it
I had to find a RCA cable just yesterday to replace one a pet chewed through. First time in ten years I’ve had to go to the basket or cables, but it was worth it!
My German shepherd puppy has chewed several cables through including USB, audio, power.
Glad to know I'm not as crazy as I thought
I laughed unnecessarily hard at this….. >.<
Super-VGA is a good standard though and the cables are solid I wish new GPUs still had VGA ports
Glad I kept some, had a projector and a laptop that needed one that only had a vga extension in the box.
everyone laughs at my cable horde, till they need a mini-A cord
Fuck that looks exactly like the basket I keep my chord in
if you dont work in IT, you have no idea how true this actually is. We still have PS2 keyboards and adapters for legacy and not so legacy systems at times, and still use them.
Good to know that in case of apocalypse all of you have retained old hardware and components. I don’t have the space for that (mostly).
The school district tech department I work for had us repace old docking stations and throw out a couple hundred VGA cables. Somehow we're still using DVI on monitors for our teachers though.
My first computer used a VGA cable. Then I ripped the thing apart and realized how primitive I actually was.
OOf, this is me and two shopping bags in my garage….
I…I confess that I have some.
Oh but that sweet, sweet victory, when you find and untangle the very cord you need in there (usually some obscure mini-USB variant that has been used twice in the entire history of consumer product design)
Nah, Went to work one someone’s PC and their video card had all port busted except for the VGA port. The card is an MSI GTX 750Ti.
I was glad that I still had a VGA cable with me. Don’t buy them at MicroCenter, those are $10 while $0.25 at Goodwill
Considering almost every computer at work still uses VGA cables…
Ok WTF. I do this too, a bunch. Seriously why do we do this? What is the point? A few moths ago I organized the cord mess and I actually threw out ‘gasp’ most of my old weird cords. But it was difficult
Lmfao I have exact that basket for my cables too. My wife keeps complaining about it day and night.
I have two monitors that only have VGA or DVI (I think) and a 3090 that I'm pretty sure supports neither. That's what the cord and adapter supply is for.
I have a few bins. One bin is a milk crate (shhh they're illegal) and it makes a comfy ghetto foot rest under my desk for when I wanna kick back and watch stuff. At the very least if they're not serving the functions I got them for, at least they're a comfy alternative to real furniture.
bruh i literally was looking for a vga to hdmi adapter cuz i got gifted an old monitor recently and I just couldn't find one cuz I threw them all out ... had to buy an adapter off of amazon cause literally not a single soul I knew still had one
Fuck old cables, just get adapters...
Amateurs I still have LPT printer cables and MIDI cables
I do. My psu cables. Corsair is taking a week to ship them
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Same, I might have 10 VGA cables in the back but you never know when you need one. And when you do what if the first one goes bad?!
Both my monitors are vga lol
Literally just purged all my old stuff.
I needed a vga cable right now because my graphics card has only one hdmi port and I left back home. Luckily it’s on its way here
Might need to use the copper in these cables to wire up robots in a post-apocalyptic future that will defend us from marauders and raiders, and troglodytes.
You never know!
You can make SCART cables with them
but my box of unusable connection cables are pretty much the only thing I have left of my dad, who my complicated relationship and his early passing left me unable to healthily grieve for.
Cashier- "Sir this is a computer direct"
My thinkpad dock has one of those. Oh and so does my thinkpad!
Can i have your vga cord?
Buy tons of adapters and make the longest cord with the most latency imaiginable
I've used a VGA cable recently. Also a USB printer cable. Sometimes it's good to have 1 or 2 in a box. Comes in handy in a pinch or when the relatives bring by an ancient computer.
I plugged in a whole gaggle of VGAs last week as part of a class on cyber security tool stack development. So yeah, keep those handy
... both of my monitors still use vga I had to buy a vga hdmi adapter to use my graphics card
Huh, I still rock a VGA 4:3 monitor.
And i just had to use one yesterday. My main monitor got busted, pulled out the old one. Man, monitors have gotten a lot better.
True story, my monitor broke and I didn't had the money to replace it or fix it at the moment, while I needed it to finish a work asap, so I got a old tube monitor I had with a vga outlet and I run out to buy a hdmi vga adapter, the image was really crappy but I managed to finish the work.
Now I was gifted a new one from a friend, but I still look at the paint I finished with the old monitor and feel that the colors are off, but at least I met the deadline...
Last week we needed a VGA cable at the office. A couple of months ago we did a storage room cleanup and got rid of old cables 🙃
Just re-organised my cable box into four drawers today of AV cables, Ethernet, USB and Power
There was indeed a couple of VGA cables in there
Better have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I needed an S-video cable a few months ago and an RCA cable about a year ago. You never know when someone will ask you to digitize something from a video8 tape... Or worse.
Maybe you just might need to run MS-DOS on hardware from 2018, 2000, and 1990 at the same time to run Doom. Who knows?
Funfact: I needed one two days ago. Because In my Server, there isn’t any Graphics Card per se but a BMC. And the BMC only has a VGA output or a serial connector. (And I didn’t have the IPMI set up correctly).
I still have my zip-drive.. just in case
Went digging in a few cable storage boxes and found loads of cables past their glory time.
Like scart. Who knew such a bulky connector would be such a pain in the butt to convert to RCA video & audio because apparently the direction of signal matters with those things.
If I need to access my server without remoting into it I would need a VGA cable. I probably have more than one VGA cable lying around though....
The feeling of me currently using vga for graphics on my test bench bc I didn't have a spare hdmi when I set it up and now I'm too lazy to change it
I'm currently cleaning out our office and I'm forced to toss out all our stored cables.
I had to toss a whole bunch of vga cables, dvi cables, mini USB cables and Apple 30pin cables.
I know that when we move to our new office, we're going to need one of these and I'm going to regret throwing it out, but it has to be done...
I had to buy one today, server only uses VGA for the video output. No this is not an old server, literally just been installed
Saying that just used one yesterday
As soon as you throw the cable away you'll need it within the next couple of weeks.
Cue you buying a ridiculously priced cable you just had.
It's maddening.
meanwhile, I just used Composite, Component, SDI and HDMI.
I use my VGA to hook my computer up to my projector all the time! Yes it's an old computer and old projector but I'm a poor college student and they're easier to move than a full TV.
I recently needed a VGA adapter for a free monitor I got from our office going remote...it took an hour of digging through cables because I had to stop and remember what each thing was for... Because, reasons.
Anyway, free monitor
This speaks to me.
One day my Skart cables will come in handy and my 20+ years of hoarding will be validated.
That said, I usually forget I have every cable known to man and buy new ones (or well loved Ebay ones) with every device anyway.
Ah the good old days of pulling it out, nearly tearing the IO clean tf out, then loosening the lil screws
I had to order a VGA cable from Amazon a few months ago to hook up some work equipment to a monitor. I'm lucky I had an old monitor with a VGA port.
I just bought 2 computers from 7 years ago for $20 together. One is a core i7 960 with 24gbs if ddr3 ram and a gtx 970. The motherboard in that one supports 3 16x pcie 2.0, using it as a file server. The other was a core i5 2450 8gbs of ram and a gtx 660. Both still have vga and one case even has eSATA on it.
I have a drawer full it’s become a nest, yes I may need that 50 ft hdmi cable for something
listen, i used a VGA and a DVI cable on my 970 until I upgraded to a 3060ti in 2021, but did have one HDMI monitor i bought in 2019 that used a digital input. Yes it was a huge jump and now i have no analogs at all but still.
Why am I keeping this cpu? Well maybe one day I might plan to make a server or something with it idk
There's still loads of brand fucking new servers which still have VGA ports and nothing else for video out.
As a systems engineer you always need a VGA
I Keep one of anything legacy for displays, that's been my rule lately. One VGA, one DVI. I also cut way back on things like USB Type B and Mini. I keep a decent stock of HDMI and DisplayPort because they are relevant.
I keep a couple SATA the rest go in the trash, I'm not building a RAID 10 array any time soon, and if I am I can get a pack of fresh cables cheap. I must have thrown 20 away last year. I'm not a warehouse and often it was others calling me to ask if I had something around because they couldn't find their own.
I keep things in bins (with snap on lids) with what is generally in them written on them. I have a Display box, Data Box, and a RF (for SDR) box. At least you know you are cutting your looking in a third being in the right box. I do keep fans in a card box labeled, you guessed it, Fans. For small parts I have a plastic organizer drawer. If you put things back, you can find whatever you need way quicker and with way less frustration. Having a giant pile of unknown cables is just a mess, that I don't have time or space for.
LMAO, I have a huge bag of cables in a closet…sometimes it comes in handy, other times someone sees a cable I’ve pulled out, and asks what is that? And I have to explain what a SVHS cable is.
I recently traveled to my home country to visit my parents. Since I know the only monitors they have use strictly VGA and I need to work with a screen larger than my laptop's, I bought an HDMI to VGA cable from Amazon. It worked out great, and now I'm the owner of a cable I'll use one month every year until they buy monitors that were not manufactured in 2007.
I keep a stack of old laptop Ram sticks, cpus ans hard drives because you never know ^^
I have 3x, I used to have 5x but two people needed them.
Bwahaha, i just got rid of a box of old computer cords, including a mouse with a ps2 connection and several serial cables
Omg I just ziptied all my cords this weekend. So timely!
My stepdad is still using a VGA cable and wonders why his resolution isn't so great.
So I worked with PLCs and stuff and legit old school cords like that were commonly used or at least ones that looked like that.
Like to install the program on one of our PLCs we needed usb mini. You know. The one that charged ps3 controllers.
This was a plc manufactured in like 2019.
Another plc similar manufacturer date used racks that could be extended by buying a 2nd rack and connecting with what looked like a VGA cord. It even had the screws to secure it.
Hey you never know when I need to do Server Maintenance Tomorrow
Literally just used a random vga cord bc my wife brought home her work tower.
I moved last week and FINALLY threw out an old VGA monitor from the garage. THE NEXT DAY I needed a VGA monitor for the work computer I was sent. I will hoard even more from now on.
I am opposite. I want to throw stuff out as soon as I stop using it and some people hate me for that.
Fuck that kinda looks like my basket! Hahaha
I feel called out.
Then again, vintage electronics are fun to work on
The sad thing is my work laptop only has a VGA port to hook up to my monitor. My trusty box of cables came through with a VGA cable tho.
The real laugh is how many people upvoted.
im using a vga cord right now to hook up my laptop to a bigger monitor
I needed a VGA cable the when troubleshooting a graphics card issue. On-board graphics weren't working via HDMI, and the GPU wasn't displaying.
I keep cables because they make troubleshooting ~~easy~~ easier.
This is literally my dad.
This makes me want to go through my 3 bins of cords and other various crap and throw all the old shit out. Damn.
All the teachers at my school still have monitors that use VGA and have core i2 duos. So I guess some people still need it.
Those things will be priceless when we have to rebuild a civilisation after ww3, definitely hold on to them
aye, servers all still use vga tho. and most new monitor still have vga.
I used a VGA cord with a DVI adapter until like 2015 so.. you never know lmao
1999? Shit, I still use VGA now and then.
I was still using a VGA cable until 2016.
You make a great point, why in the world do I still have all my old cables💀
To be fair, I just installed a brand new server which uses VGA.
I have cables, connectors, adaptors, power bricks, and various electrical gizmos by the truckload. Do i need them all right now? No, but I like to tinker and you never know when part of a gadget might come in handy. And its convenient to have them to hand rather getting something off ebay/amazon.
Plus the way I see it I am doing my bit to save the planet.
If you dispose of it, where does it go? The landfill? Hardly environmentally sensible. What about a yard sale? whos really going to pay actual money for a 1997 nokia charger? But if you need a PSU with that specific voltage for a project you can just cut the connector off and you are good to go.
LTT amazon basic video
"you bought this? (typical psu cord) we literally have a bin full of these!"
I work IT for small rural schools across Montana. I use VGA cables almost every day.
VGA is still very relevant. One of my work monitors is VGA, sometimes I still use VGA at home to hook up a second or 3rd computer to my monitors depending on what the current set up is.
I found the 2.5mm jack that I have been looking for finally, it was broken
If you ask me to guess which connector (VGA, HDMI or DP) is going to disappear first I'd probably would say DP. HDMI is going to be baked into TVs for the next decade until somebody shows up with something better, VGA is the legacy connector that anyone can fallback to and still found on new devices like servers or projectors (often together with HDMI).
i still use dvi. not because i think its better than hdmi or anything. its just the monitor i have is so old it doesnt have a hdmi port. i think my monitor was from around 2008
My employer totally still sells PCs with monitors and the connection is a VGA cable. They also still sell Pentium PCs. They're modern pentiums but I'll let you guess how fast a processor named after 1990's technology operates. With an HDD and 4GB of RAM. For only $2k. If anyone's interested let me know and I'll hook you up!
Servers
I was recently in need of a VGA cable. I now know the pain of needing something so old and common and not having one.
Today i needed a dvi-d cable …. And was there, in the old cable box
Marc Maron has the best bit on saving old cables...
March 2020. We all know. Got sent home and so did the wife. Had to quickly assemble two home offices.
Took me 3 hours and we were both enjoying multi-monitor, hard wired internet, hd webcams, the works. 90% of it came from that “box of junk you’re never going to use again” I’d been stockpiling for years.
That was the moment she knew I’d never throw away a cord again.
I was just given a monitor that needs a vga cable today lol
I had to use one this week. A power edge w a bad motherboard that wouldn’t post. Even with idrac9.
I literally had to buy a 30' USB cable and a 30' VGA cable 2 weeks ago for a demo to a very large corporation. It irked me that I didn't have them already.
I mean with the disruption that happened with video cards etc in recent years it might not take much to knock computer production and other things for a loop…and we may need to start salvaging old tech to use from a point. You never know.
The computers at my work still use vga
Can confirm. Have a big drawer of cords and adapers. Half i dont even know what they do
I’m just saying, all this shit might come in handy in a post apocalyptic world. Minerals will be scarce.
SO OBVIOUSLY YES PC>Console, ya ya, but i had finally gotten rid of "box of extra cables " and to be fair, ya, ill prob never need a co-ax splitter or a RF adapter, etc. BUT YOu know what i DID need? THe dam power cord for my old PS2 i dusted off for some classic gaming! SMH F$(*%K
I actually needed a VGA cord the other day. But did I have one? Noooo. I had to throw it away!
I have a full plastic tote that I bring with me everytime I move, but I haven't used anything from it in years. VGA, DVI, and RCA mostly. The current stuff is kept elsewhere (and speaker wire is a separate tote).
I work in I.T. for the medical center of a decently well known state university; can confirm, we keep a bin of every video input/output cable we can get our hands on, because you never know
I have been trying to explain this to my wife for years. It's like she just doesn't get it or something
I had to buy a power/data combiner cable, so I could rescue an old friend's old hard drives. Of course, Amazon didn't have ONE for sale, they only came on two-packs. Great. Another dumb inductee for the spaghetti crate.
I just moved house and realised i have 5 huge boxes worth of cables and other pc gear...
I actually needed a VGA cable just a few hours ago for an Asrock rack motherboard with an AST2400 GPU (and my hoarding of electronics delivered, I had a brand new cable ready to be used)
I'm having this debate now with the SO, I'm unfortunately not helped by not being able to find the power cord for the 2nd TV
Came in handy working from home funny enough since the tower had a displayport and a VGA port
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I have deemed myself “The Cable Master” in my household as I have one of those nice reusable shopping bags you can buy at Trader Joe’s or whatever, packed full of cables, plugs, daughter boards, screws, headers, hard drives, even a random flight stick. I feel this post xD
If you ever work with server bga cables are a list. Serial cables on the other hand I also collect but haven't needed one in a decade.
Each cord will be useless until you throw the box out.
Then every cord will be needed over a 3 week period.
I actually used a VGA cord only a couple weeks ago, fired up an old home server I had which was having an issue booting into Linux and connecting to network so had to plug it into an old monitor. Gotta always keep these cables around!
Imagine there is an apocylpse tomorrow and only VGA monitors exist? Boom, would regret chucking it out the wouldn't ya
This happened when I started my new job it's WFH and their it equipment is ancient luckily I had a box in the shed with all my old IT stuff finally my old VGA cables came in handy
I estimate I just threw away about 20lb of cables last week.
Expect to need one of them any minute now.
Had 3 fucking MASSIVE plastic bags absolutely filled, filed and ziptied with cords. There was probably cords for shit that doesent exist YET. One day, my TV Cable... cable (?) broke, and i wasn't too worried. I Knew that there was probably a dozen of those in one of those plastic bags. Went through the house, storages everything, and couldn't find them. They didin't take a huge amount of space, they could've been thrown under a bed and forgot about. But... good ol' mom decided to chuck them out to trash... because? Well even she didin't fucking know. Probably a good 300-500$ in useful, working fucking cables in the trash.
Ummm, I still use VGA(D-Sub) cables for many of my computers.
The most obscure tech I have in my drawer is a USB 3.5" floppy drive. Strangest thing that I could possibly have and I think I bought it to install some legacy driver that for some reason couldn't have been installed by usb or just downloaded
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