Nailed it today! My buddy needed a USB router cable for serial access and bam! I found one in my trusty box of ancient cords. I gave him that cable in his need of the hour from a box of random cables I’ve had for 25 glorious years. This is why I horde πŸ˜…

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I'm showing this success story to my wife!

@nixCraft yes the once a decade retrieval from the extras box totally justifies it. πŸ€“
@nixCraft If I may take this moment to congratulate you on vindicating cord-whoreders the world-round, and plug my own modest method for enabling our ilk at any scale to quickly find the once-a-decade requests we get from those nearly lost souls (and data) we saved from the pit. I dubbed it "The Hirt-strings"
@Beggarmidas @nixCraft It's like a shower curtain or those old hippy beads.
@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud @nixCraft This is just the one segment i've preserved all these years later. The original full banger in my old shop was about 30' in total. The support legs had an upper & lower sleeved supports slightly offset. Somewhere think I still have some pics. Main thing is that it spares you that memory hole-laden labor of Sisyphus going through milk crates full of the superficially nearly identical looking bastards. You just run down the line & viola! Bobs your uncle. Done.
@nixCraft i hate it when i cant find my old stuff tho

@nixCraft As a fellow hoarder, i applaud you! πŸ‘πŸ‘

(And, also politely ask: may i use "This is Why I Horde" for an album title? πŸ˜‰)

@nixCraft I still have SCART cables in my box.. just saying!
@nixCraft I was trying to breath life in to a 30 year old laptop today and I needed a modified parallel cable to bypass the BIOS lock. It took a couple of minutes of digging in the assorted boxes of old cables and hardware, but I found one! A quick bit of soldering later and the BIOS lock is gone!
@nixCraft hehe, I have a cunning plan! My son is learning to build PCs so he gets to look after the box of mixed horses parts 😁 Now it's educational!