Marcin Wichary4d ago
It’s weird when you realize plugs and sockets used to be so huge you could just label individual pins.
Show threadGeoff Coffey
@mwichary Ah yes remember pins? Bent pins. Broken pins. It was a magical time when you could look at a connector and see what was wrong with it.
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Show threadMarcin Wichary4d ago
@gwcoffey Yeahhhh https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-i-knew-it-i-had-four-damaged-sockets-and-three-bad-cables/
“Before I knew it, I had four damaged sockets and three bad cables” – Unsung

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Show threadGeoff Coffey4d ago
@mwichary Gah. Truly amazing. Anyway if you need me I’ll be over here tweaking my scsi addresses and swapping out terminators to get these two drives to work at the same time.
Show threadThalia Archibald4d ago
@gwcoffey @mwichary I'll be learning how to do that very soon for my two magneto-optical SCSI drives.
Show threadGeoff Coffey4d ago
@thalia @mwichary Old people like me love to gabble about this stuff but actually 9 times out of 10 scsi just worked fine haha. I hope that’s the case for your drives! I haven’t seen an MO drive in ages.
Show threadColin4d ago
@mwichary @gwcoffey just make the pins big enough again to not bend like that! ;)
Show threadGeoff Coffey4d ago
@colinstu @mwichary Have you ever stuck one of those telephone switch board connectors into their socket before. So satisfying. I want those all over my house.