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Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸You kids and your "USB-C."
Well that blew up like a smartphone battery plugged into a power brick with the wrong mA specification! Muting now. :)
Jason
@Jason844 #2 is always going to come out looking like #3 or #4 unless you tape them together!
This was more my lane:
M0KHR
Jawaka
Not a Spring Onion
Norman Wilson@corbden I can't remember what Hercules and CGA were like, but I guess they shared the same pin layout with VGA/SVGA.
@M0KHR IIRC, at least CGA and EGA did. All of those monitors and video cards were backwards compatible. I even had a computer that was black and white (16-greys). I have no idea what they called that. But it used the same port.
screambiogenesis@corbden @M0KHR As far as I understand it,, VGA/SVGA (analogue) isn't inherently backward compatible with CGA and EGA (digital), though I'm sure most manufacturers in the transition years made an effort to support both.
I picked up a monitor recently that has an odd one: E8M EIAJ. Confusingly used for both bidirectional composite AV on some early camcorders and VCRs, and digital RGBI on a few early computers. Wild.
Edible
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
Datenegassie@corbden I know it's really a collection of different photos, but I choose to believe that this is a backplane of one awesome computer
Dave@corbden
You forgot the 10base2 BNC connectors and the 15-pin AUI connector for ethernet.
Oh, and that funny one on the back of a soundcard that carried joystick and MIDI.
😜
You forgot the 10base2 BNC connectors and the 15-pin AUI connector for ethernet.
Oh, and that funny one on the back of a soundcard that carried joystick and MIDI.
😜
Thinkaholic is 🐸 antifa@TheLancashireman @corbden 6 down /2 across gets you AUI/MIDI.
💬@pooserville @TheLancashireman @corbden but that’s not actually AUI, has screw locks instead of the slider
@rfc6919 @TheLancashireman @corbden Good catch. It's been a hot minute since I used AUI. (I was a Mac guy so AAUI was more my speed.)
WatchLover679@TheLancashireman @corbden oh shit forgot about the 15 pin Aui !!!!
Christopher Schwarz 
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️@corbden I love this photograph. Maddening.
Jérôme Petazzoni@corbden well at least back in my days you'd know what was a port just by looking at it. Today with USB C you don't know what speed and wattage it can do; can it do alt modes and which ones; and there is a goddamn chip at each end of the cable 🤣
Karl Baron
Scott Michaud
@scottmichaud Looks like one of the serial ports to me! The little one! Be sure to set your IRQs!
@corbden Game port. Found on a bunch of sound cards, because two-in-one "save a slot" marketing.
@scottmichaud @corbden Pretty sure I saw a card once (probably 5150 era) that had a DB9 and a DB25, but it wasn't two serial ports. It was a MDA (or perhaps CGA) video port and a serial port. Totally not confusing.
aerique@scottmichaud @corbden Aaah yes, game ports on sound cards. That was weird.
Chris Pepper@corbden I've had all these except Surround Sound, and used most but probably not the parallel printer port. And yes, I do have some coax Ethernet cable on my desk. Why do you ask?
Choobs@corbden tut - you could do an infographic that size on SCSI variants alone :)
spmatich vk3spm 
tarneo@corbden Now I'm wondering about why most laptop keyboards show up as "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" on Linux
~n@corbden To be brutally honest though… USB-C basically is „all of these but over a connector that looks the same and with cables that have violently different properties despite having the same connector“. Hell, even each device behaves in an unpredictable way.
Sometimes No@corbden There is no greater evidence that a port will disappear from usage than when I buy an audio interface that uses it.
Duncan MacGregor@corbden where’s the DB13W3 video connector? A workstation classic.
Electropict
It’s an HD15 to 13w3 display adaptor cable I used to use to connect a KVM box to a big monitor.
(There were different kinds of 13w3; some were Sun, some SGI, and one or the other was also used by Apple; they had different pins and I forget the differences, but all had the three shielded coaxial wires and miniature sockets for video signals. The extra stability mattered back then.)
@electropict @corbden yeah, they varied on how sync signals were sent and things like that. I had a couple of DB13W3 to 5xBNC cables back when BNCs were what you'd find on the back of big colour displays and DB13W3s were what you found on Sun graphics cards.
Piers Cawley@corbden When I do the average online purity test, I tend to come out as almost tediously pure. Not this one though. Heck, I still have a screen somewhere which only has an ADC cable.
I am Jack's Lost 404Back in the dark old days before Arduino you had to twiddle the 8 twiddleable pins on the Parallel Port... and hope you didn't twiddle something you twerent supposed to...
BaldiePete@corbden what about IEEE-488 GPIB? I spent years programming software for instruments on GPIB.
dxzdb@baldiepete @corbden yes! More plugs.
CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂@corbden I feel like it I spend a few minutes down in the workshop I could find a cable for most of these ...
Well, perhaps not the old firewire ones ... but sadly pretty much all of the others ...
KanaMauna@corbden I’m fairly certain I have most of these in a box in my garage.
peter sibley
Michael Valkenberg@corbden I still have cables and/or adapters for at least half of those…
Peter Lee@corbden like so many others, I can’t decide whether to be excited or depressed by the number of these I’ve used over the years (and until very recently, still had cables for).
And there’s a lot of them I still use.
And there’s a lot of them I still use.
@peteralee @corbden I agree. I think I’m especially ashamed that I’ve never used the optical port. 😏
@peteralee @corbden Yeah that one - I don't think I ever knew it was called that.
Enjoy it while you can because that's gone off of all the new AppleTV’s. The new remote find feature might be worth upgrading just by itself.
irelephant@corbden i had to deal with this when i was younger, not because it was a while ago, but because all the devices i had were outdated
keith@corbden i had an adb modem. something like "phlinx"... it was cool. you could program it to make noises and play the session over the computer speaker so i made a hypercard app that would dial my bank and had all the different phone-bank functions programmed in. the only thing missing was any money in my account to actually manage.
EDIT: found the modem: "Teleport" from Global Village. "phlynx" must have been something else from around that time.
https://tidbits.com/1991/09/23/teleport-capabilities/
Lou@corbden What's going on with the USB 3.0? 😅
Travis 'Nep' Smith@corbden My favourite is µUSB 3.0 type B
https://www.bournesuperstore.com.au/assets/full/CBAT-USB3MICRO-AB-3M.jpg
https://www.bournesuperstore.com.au/assets/full/CBAT-USB3MICRO-AB-3M.jpg
@Methylzero @corbden oh that! I have a bunch of drives that use that😖
I think we’ve added about another row
GPIB, MIDI, BNC, XLR…
Jaguarior Jones