You kids and your "USB-C."

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@corbden where’s the DB13W3 video connector? A workstation classic.

@electropict

The fuck is that thing??

@aardvark179

@corbden @aardvark179

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.