VICTORY! I am hooking up my sound bar that I haven't had hooked up for years. I needed an AUX cable. Did I have one handy? No. Did I go to The Big Box Of Cables? YES! And what did I find there? THE EXACT CABLE I NEED! As well as an S-video cable and 9 RCA cables, if anyone needs some of those.
I have a garage wall full of big boxes of carefully packed cables plus several random ones scattered about the house plus the bogeyman box’o’ strange cables that hides under the stairs and I mostly steer clear of because it scares me. Oh, plus three kids’ own boxes of cables…
Oh, I *also* have lots of long serial cables and gender changers and random twisted pairs for setting up impromptu networking at kids' camps in rented school buildings. And a stack of V.34 modems. And probably an ISDN modem card somewhere...
We saw an SUV in Silicon Valley with the custom plate ITANIUM - a big boxy Ford Explorer that runs hot and was of the vintage to be what someone at Intel spent their bonus on
To be fair, it probably sold considerably fewer units than Pokemon Go did ;)
Quite a few people relying on all the work I did to try to make sure that WiFi cards from different manufacturers had some guarantee of interoperability, rather than just the vague possibility, mind :)
We had a token ring switch at my last job. It was still used for customer support for this ancient warehouse pick system that was still used by few customers.
I had to build and manage a couple of 10BaseT networks and I had an intermittent problem that turned out to be someone leaning back in their chair and stretching the cable out of the connector when they had a stretch
