Wife Throws Away Incredibly Specific Adapter Cable You've Held On To For 7 Years Right Before You Suddenly Find A Use For It

The Babylon Bee ^ | October 18, 2021 | The Babylon Bee

[KC Burke]

“amps” not Amos.

[cgbg]

We had a similar discussion in a cigar online group—this guy wanted to yell at his wife for tossing a humidor holding some of his very old cigars since it was buried deep in a closet.

The consensus was that he should not yell at her because it was his fault—he should have stored it high enough so she couldn’t reach it!

;-)

[Daffynition]

To laugh.

At the beginning of the pandemic, bread WAS hard to find up here in the NEK of VT.

I could buy flour, no problem but I couldn’t find any yeast.

A friend sent me a 10 yr. supply who lives in CT. So I’m good for a while.

[no-s]

I have 8” floppy disks I acquired in the 70s. Haven’t seen a working drive in a few years though.

[1Old Pro]

Everything looks useful to me :)

[RainMan]

I used to have those as well, but I dont remember them being around in the 70's. My first personal computer was a DEC Rainbow running CP/M in 1984.

The 8" floppies were used a lot in the early Phototype machines. I remember a project in late 84 with a printing company where I was converting all their job files from a Compu Edit to an AM platform and it required me to transfer the files via 8" floppy.

However, this thread is about cables, which really did not become a "thing" until the late 80's, and most of those were either those 30 pin video cables or the printer cables that were thick enough to tow a car. I remember in the early/mid 90's you started getting cables for external CD drives, and at one point I had one of those ultra high capacity floppy disks (dont remember what they were called) but you had a blue external drive reader. I think they held like 10MB of data and that was sooooooooo cool. They had their own super-specific cables.

It was around then that they started selling a lot of "adaptors", like the one you would use to convert a serial mouse to a PS2 style connector. It took a couple of years of that nonsense before they separated the cables from the devices (like the mouse).

I sold Unix systems back then and used to have to lug around entire systems ... 5 large cases with computers, monitors, printers, cables ... through the airport. I would have to get to the customer site an hour prior to the demo to set everything up. Amazing how far we have come.

[The Duke]

She can have my Commodore 64 monitor when she rips it from my cold, dead hands!