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Posted by Brajeshwar 1 day ago

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
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aidenn0 17 hours ago|
I seriously doubt that I'll ever need the 3 floppy-drive cables or 10 IDE cables that I have.
lordnacho 18 hours ago||
This is how your kids end up with a SCART cable.

That box that you move every time you move house without opening it.

alaudet 18 hours ago||
I also have a big box of cables and now I no longer feel shame my brothers.
Dwedit 19 hours ago||
How about obsolete cables? IDE, RG59 coax, Cat 5, Composite video, etc...
fred69 15 minutes ago||
Just went/still going through a vicious residential downsizing. In multiple boxes of cables, only IEEE488 and Centronics plug types didn't give me nightmares to toss. Oh, and the remaining spool of 300-ohm TV antenna cable. Kept some RG59 and associated tools, don't really know why.
agent86 19 hours ago|||
Depends on if you reasonably expect to encounter one of those devices again and if the future cabling is backwards compatible.

Using your list I'd likely keep one IDE and comoposite video cable, but toss the RG59 and CAT5 because I could use a current RG6 or CAT6 cable in their place.

wvenable 15 hours ago||
You get into vintage computer collecting and regret all things that you tossed...
WesolyKubeczek 6 hours ago||
Test your cables once in a while.

There is a lot of USB cables that look the same but have different capabilities, there is a lot of HDMI or DisplayPort cables that look the same but have different capabilities, there are cables that stop working once you bend them in a particular way.

There are cables that can get sticky and filthy practically on their own (Apple!).

Mind cables whose plugs are bent.

I think the same should apply to perfectly fine screws you take off broken stuff, pieces of metal profiles, nuts etc. But I could never be arsed to sort them proactively. My late father used to keep a Big Jar of Screws and spend time rummage through them when he needed a particular one. I don't know which approach is superior, to be honest.

simondotau 5 hours ago||
Oh great, grandad left an old pile of USB-A cables of wildly variable quality for my humanoid robot to shred
ocd 1 day ago||
Rubbermaid Roughneck half size of resealable bags of cables.
octol 19 hours ago||
What if you have 7 big boxes of cables…?
mock-possum 7 hours ago|
One for ac adaptors, one for usb, one for dvi, one for hdmi, one for display port, one for Ethernet, one for audio, one for midi/xlr, one for… let’s see what am I forgetting…

Oh and the extensions, splitters, surge protectors, and remote switches all get their own big box in the garage of course.

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