This has happened to me, which is why I now have an entire section of a cupboard dedicated to parts and cables. I'm not entirely sure an ISA card would ever be needed today, but you never know!!!
Same. I have a shelf dedicated to old PC stuff because sometime I end up needing it. Maybe I haven't touched it for years but it comes in handy sometimes. For example I was asked to get some files off some floppy disks someone had a couple years ago and I was the only one they knew who was able to do it. There's also been quite a few instances of someone's PC going down and I was able to loan them something to get them going again until they bought a replacement. The way I keep from spilling over into full "hoarder" is that this shelf is the only place I allow myself to keep computer parts so if I get more stuff than will fit on the shelf something has to go to make room.
Here I am, literally waiting for delivery of a USB-C to Mini-USB cable that I thought I would never need and got rid of six months ago.
Turns out the little external DVD player I keep around if I ever need to watch a DVD requires it. 🤦🏻♂️
Just happened to me yesterday. I needed a 12v power adapter to trigger cable, but I had thrown out the previous one thinking I would never use it.
If you need to get rid of a pile of DC power supplies and they're all similar, consider donating them to a stem youth club. I have a huge pike of 12v power supplies with the 5.5-2.1mm plug on them and they work great with breadboard power supplies.
Have none of you learned the law!!?? The act of throwing the cable away is what created the need for that cable. The cable gods MUST be appeased. (Also applies to adapters and random hardware.)
Label and bind cables, throw them into a big plastic bin with lid, label the lid with contents. Repeat as necessary.
Once every few years, take them out and test them with appliance. If it's a USB cable, put it into three categories:
Keep the dead ones. They are very strong cables you can use to tie things together.
Amateur radio checking-in: the cables and adapters are just the beginning. There is no "box"—it's simply "storage"
I continue to carry a box (well, currently it's in three shoeboxes, technically) of cables, some of which are roughly as old as I am
My spouse the other night: "Where is the camera?"
Me: "In your phone?".
Apparently we have a digital camera, which I'm sure we have no way to connect to our current computers, and he is convinced someone stole it even though it's from like 2004.
This was me. A few months ago, I threw out a cable I thought was for a 20 year old flipphone that I'll never use again, but it was a charger for something else and I wanted it last week for a relative. Now we need to buy new hardware. Don't do it, kids, horde those cables. Horde them like you don't fancy spending an unnecessary 30 smackers next year.
I got around this by keeping several USB-C to USB-C cables around, and buying female USB-C to male whatever adapters. Doesn't cover everything, but enough that I got rid of a small crate full of cables and only have to keep a half-dozen or so other cables.
I could probably get rid of some of the cables in my cable box, but that damn thing came with my on my sudden cross country move and was almost immediately useful so no one will ever convince me to throw it all away.
I threw away my weird cables when I moved two years ago. How fucked is future me?
The further into your future you go, the more likely you're gonna get fucked by that bold maneuver. May glob have mercy on your soul
It’s settled then. The VGA cable stays.
For servers VGA is still like the standard. I always make sure to have a VGA monitor.
The cable knot must grow.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I give up my cable box.
I'll need this LPT cable eventually, then you'll see. You'll all see.
Tip: Organize the cords into ziplock bags so they can't tangle. The freezer bags are thick enough to handle the prongs on power bricks.
You can also label and date the bags so if you decide to go against all the wisdom of the gods and do a purge of old cables.
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