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Computer and cables go together like coffee and pie. In fact, one of the great things about tablet computing is that a tablet has only one cable. Thank the Lords of Kobol for that!<\/p>\n
Having been a computer nerd for over 300 years now, I’ve collected a vast array of cables. The image at the start of this blog post is from the bone yard out in my garage. There are two shelving units for old computers, monitors, keyboards, and assorted parts. The tangle of cables is hung up on the wall next to the shelves. (In the image you also see the tops of my kids’ Razor scooters, which they haven’t touched in 7 years, and some plywood waiting for a project.)<\/p>\n
Believe it or not, I’ve purged the cable ganglia several times since moving in. The first purge was to get rid of all the SCSI cables. They were thick and stiff and didn’t hang well anyway. Other older cables have been purged as well, mostly used for device I no longer have and are no longer available anyway.<\/p>\n
I do occasionally use those cables you see above, and prefer to store them outside as opposed to cramming them in a drawer or stuffing them behind the computer. Just the other day I visited the boneyard to look for a USB extension cable. So it’s nice to have spares.<\/p>\n
When I was out looking for the USB extension cable, I noticed that it’s probably time to purge again. The culprit? Some old printer and monitor cables.<\/p>\n
It’s been years since I’ve hooked up a printer by using the old parallel cable. Ditto for a monitor with a VGA cable. I suppose I could toss out all those cables. Well, I’d probably toss out all of them but one. I still have an antique serial cable, which I keep because I still have an old 56K modem — just in case.<\/p>\n
Then again, why do I have the modem when I don’t even have dialup phone service any more? Gotta purge that, too.<\/p>\n
The majority of the cables are pretty much related to current standards: USB, IEEE, Ethernet, and power. I probably don’t need all of them, but it’s just tough to throw out old technology. I mean, I still have those memory cards I swore I’d throw out years ago, even though there’s not a computer in the house that could use those ancient DIMMs.<\/p>\n
The thought of purging old cables is enticing, and it doesn’t take a lot of time. What will take a lot of time would be turning to the shelving units and purging old stuff from there as well. It will be another trip down memory lane . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}