At my house I have about 35 lighting cables from old iPhones. I married into an Apple family with 4 daughters. Their friends think I got a cable for everything lol. Which I probably do
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Doesn't everyone keep a bag of random cables and a box of random screws?
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I still have the 5.25 inch floppy drive with ribbon cable.
Som e day a bank that never upgraded will need it desperately and then I'll cash in. Bwahahaha
I've been working on this company for 3 years.
We have a "cable cabinet" that has around 50 different types of cables. Around 45 of them have been there from the early 90s. I still haven't used them. And none of my colleagues (some of which have been there for 20 years or more) have ever used them. Yet, everyone refuses to throw them away, we don't want to risk needing them and not finding them.
I'm retro computing, retro everything tech, and I DO need my collection!
Just had to order a keyboard DIN connector (pre PS-2) adapter for a old 80386. Because I obviously still don't hoard enough old stuff!
One of the few things I'm afraid I won't be able to use anymore are UMTS (3G) sticks and routers. Although, the router still works a perfectly fine mobile Wifi router, hmmmmm ....
Give me a 8-pin Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter or cable for less than 20$ and we'll talk.
I love old AC adapters. Whenever I'm tossing something out, I keep the adapter. I have a box full of them.
A couple of years ago, I got into home music recording, and started buying used gear at auctions. If they come with the box, manual and accessories, they can be expensive, but I don't need the box, and you can find any manual online, so all I need is the adapter. Without the adapter, the thing sells for real cheap, and I almost always have an old adapter that works.
Nothing is more satisfying than getting a piece of used gear in the mail, and digging through the box for the right adaptor, plugging it in, and seeing it come to life.
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Ah btw, crossover cables are not needed anymore.
I had this exact feeling when my kid brought home an old laptop he found from his grandpa and it was one of those IBM T23s from the early 2000s but there was no power cable with it. Guess who had one still in his tangle of wires? lol Now we'll see if the laptop still actually works.
If for your dad it was a random offcut of wood you're in the picture.
I had a moment of validation almost identical to this and it was just as satisfying as you would imagine.
fuck this one hits the hardest out of all of them. I refer to myself as an old man all the time, but this is shit I did in high school.
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Bam! I have that box too!
future goals fr