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.
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 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.
