This joke would have fucking slayed in 1998.
1998: That would be a waste of a perfectly good cable. Never know when you might need it, so it goes in the box with the others.
2023: The fuck are all these cables for? I’ll make a meme… but only with one. Never know when you might need the others.
Just clean it off afterwards, they don’t have chips in them like today’s smart cables, just clean them off and dry them off and they’ll work just fine afterwards.
Got my grandfather to have a chuckle at it
I put them in in Parallel
I would not trust anyone putting milk in their bowl first
That’s definitely a VGA or DVI cable and not a DE9 serial cable. It’s too wide.
The I²C bus on pins 12 and 15 is definitely a serial interface, and arguably each color is serial, even if they’re not… the traditional sort.
It is quite amusing how many less ambiguous serial connectors they could have trivially chosen. PCI-E, ethernet (8P8C), SATA, SAS, HDMI, FireWire… the options are numerous.
Honest question, what do you use these ports for apart from VGA? I never used anything but VGA but these ports look the same.
They look similar but a VGA port has 15 pins and a serial port has only 9. Serial ports like this one were really common before USB was used. You would plug peripherals into it kind of the same way you use a USB port. Mice were probably the most common use, but you could plug a lot of different things into them.
there’s a similar looking plug for serial, RS232
Hmmm?
