What is the weirdest item you have in your box of spare parts?
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I still have some 5.25" floppies lying around... they are not weird, just a little old :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
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I recently came across a VGA to USB adapter. Not quite sure what it's for, but it may be useful someday i guess. I used to also have an internal tape drive circa '91 that used a "clip" type floppy cable. I had a few other things, but i don't remember anymore, though nearly everything i wouldn't intentionally buy is salvage stuff. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI have a video accelerator card from the days before video cards did their own processing.
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VGA to USB ? What does that go into ? I have piles and piles of cables, cases, CD drives, you name it. Hard to say what is strange, I doubt I can beat VGA->USB I do have the cable that my old matrox card needed to be dual head.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
VGA to USB ? What does that go into ?
Not sure... The USB end is a "blade" (PC end) type connector, and the other plugs either straight into the video card or the monitor, but it's only about a foot long.
Christian Graus wrote:
I have piles and piles of cables, cases, CD drives, you name it. Hard to say what is strange, I doubt I can beat VGA->USB I do have the cable that my old matrox card needed to be dual head.
I'm a hoarder, so at one point i've probably had as much stuff as you do (before we moved), so i can understand. The only stuff i willingly get rid of is neither old, interesting and rare enough, nor still usable by me. The things i've been able to keep thru the move are most of my cables (i still can't find my serial and two sets of parallel :( ), and heatsinks of all shapes and sizes, as well as all the working (or expensive but broken) computers. The 8X CD-ROM drive had to go:laugh: Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
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I recently came across a VGA to USB adapter. Not quite sure what it's for, but it may be useful someday i guess. I used to also have an internal tape drive circa '91 that used a "clip" type floppy cable. I had a few other things, but i don't remember anymore, though nearly everything i wouldn't intentionally buy is salvage stuff. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
My neighbor's lightning striked modem. Just for fun. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
My neighbor's lightning striked modem.
WOW.
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"Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
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I recently came across a VGA to USB adapter. Not quite sure what it's for, but it may be useful someday i guess. I used to also have an internal tape drive circa '91 that used a "clip" type floppy cable. I had a few other things, but i don't remember anymore, though nearly everything i wouldn't intentionally buy is salvage stuff. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CADifferent parts of scribing compass. Back from elementary school :cool:
[My Blog]
"Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
"Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe -
In the bottom of my filing cabinet I still have an 8 inch floppy from old PDP11 days.
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
If you look at my profile, I was born in 1981.... What's an 8-inch floppy? ;P
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
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If you look at my profile, I was born in 1981.... What's an 8-inch floppy? ;P
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
That's why they invented Viagra.
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I recently came across a VGA to USB adapter. Not quite sure what it's for, but it may be useful someday i guess. I used to also have an internal tape drive circa '91 that used a "clip" type floppy cable. I had a few other things, but i don't remember anymore, though nearly everything i wouldn't intentionally buy is salvage stuff. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
I recently came across a VGA to USB adapter. Not quite sure what it's for, but it may be useful someday i guess. I used to also have an internal tape drive circa '91 that used a "clip" type floppy cable. I had a few other things, but i don't remember anymore, though nearly everything i wouldn't intentionally buy is salvage stuff. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAa SCSI card
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If you look at my profile, I was born in 1981.... What's an 8-inch floppy? ;P
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
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I recently came across a VGA to USB adapter. Not quite sure what it's for, but it may be useful someday i guess. I used to also have an internal tape drive circa '91 that used a "clip" type floppy cable. I had a few other things, but i don't remember anymore, though nearly everything i wouldn't intentionally buy is salvage stuff. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAA riding crop. It was a bachelor party gift from some coworkers a couple of jobs ago, and I just stuck it in a parts box when I was packing up. They were definitely an interesting group.
This blanket smells like ham
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If you look at my profile, I was born in 1981.... What's an 8-inch floppy? ;P
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
hat's an 8-inch floppy?
I guess with current internet trends, its not safe to do such a Google search...
:badger:
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Different parts of scribing compass. Back from elementary school :cool:
[My Blog]
"Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
"Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne MetcalfeI have an old cartography compass and related set, must be circa 1900.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
My neighbor's lightning striked modem.
WOW.
[My Blog]
"Visual studio desperately needs some performance improvements. It is sometimes almost as slow as eclipse." - Rüdiger Klaehn
"Real men use mspaint for writing code and notepad for designing graphics." - Anna-Jayne Metcalfe -
In the bottom of my filing cabinet I still have an 8 inch floppy from old PDP11 days.
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
I have few boxes of 8" floppies. I have one machine spared from salvage because it has a Colorado tape drive to go with some very old source archives, but I really don't know the life of mag media. The tapes are probably unreadable. I have an Apple ][+ in the original box, with cassette tapes of programs I typed in from Nibble Magazine. Heck, I still have the Nibble magazines too. I have Microsoft "Typing Tutor" from 1976, I think it was. Maybe 1978.
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I have an old cartography compass and related set, must be circa 1900.
Cranial Apocalypse
Calling all South African developers! Your participation in this local dev community will be mutually beneficial, to you and us.
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I have a slide rule that I used when taking Physics "back in the day" and the TI-SR 50a calculator that replaced it, in it's original zipper case. Also, a Radio Shack VOM meter that I assembled from a kit in 1974, I think. Still works!
I had a slide rule once, in school. It was in preparation for the next year's maths classes, as electronic calculators were not yet permitted in schools. I never used it, as they decided to allow calculators the year I would have needed the slide rule.
Cranial Apocalypse
Calling all South African developers! Your participation in this local dev community will be mutually beneficial, to you and us.
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I still have some 5.25" floppies lying around... they are not weird, just a little old :)
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Still got any single-sided 5.25" floppies? I've got (in original box, with KMart $10-48 price tag!) the chomper so you can turn them over and use the other side.:-D Peter
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I had a slide rule once, in school. It was in preparation for the next year's maths classes, as electronic calculators were not yet permitted in schools. I never used it, as they decided to allow calculators the year I would have needed the slide rule.
Cranial Apocalypse
Calling all South African developers! Your participation in this local dev community will be mutually beneficial, to you and us.
Cool. Keep it and pass it down to your grandkids. Mine is actually one my father bought in the 1950's, I think, and he passed down to me so I could use in school. I'll pass it down as well as more of a "techno-heirloom". Using it reminds us that the greatest bridges and buildings were built only to 3 significant digits. Who needs 64 or 128 bit precision? .
