Deborah: 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...

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.

Got plenty, thanks. Can I offer you some thin Ethernet cables?

cheapernet!

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...

I have a USB WiFi adapter.

I have prototype PCMCIA Wifi adapters for which I wrote the firmware.

I had a US Robotics PCMCIA refrigerator magnet. It was the case with the guts replaced with the magnet.

I think my father still has some Itanium processors. There was some kind of mixup with the power supplies used in QA and they fried a bunch of them.

I have a handful of Intel and IBM processors encased in Lucite and mounted on clocks and business card cases and a hologram of an Inmos transputer

That’s very cool! I still mourn for the Transputer (and Occam): lovely chips to work on

So @sbisson.com used to work with Tim King who wrote the research OS for the transputer

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

That person needs to get a Cybertruck and swap plates.

Respect.

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 :)

Sweet!

I finally ditched the PC Card Wi-Fi adapters and gave away the PC Card USB 3 adapter! Still have the extra long Corning glass USB cable somewhere

I have a 50 foot OPT cable.

I’ve got a box of them. My house runs on a cluster of Raspberry Pi systems and every time I upgrade I end up with another USB WiFi adapter.

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

An interesting thing about that setup is it was powered by this ancient IBM RISC System that was the one and only Y2K problem we found. If it ticked over to year 2000, it was guaranteed to brick itself.

Any of them playing video? You're welcome! :-p

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