Mac Slocum
04-09-07, 09:08 AM
Journey Into the Valley of Electronic Death
We all have a drawer or box brimming with ancient A/V wires. See what columnist Steve Castle found in his.
Maybe this has happened to you: I recently needed to find a little wire for an electronics device and opened what I call the Valley of Electronic Death. It’s a drawer in an old desk that’s chock full of every kind of computer cable/adapter/telephone cord I’d probably used in the past decade or so but probably hadn’t used in the previous 24 months.
http://www.electronichouse.com/images/uploads/0407-wire-nest.jpg (http://www.electronichouse.com/article/journey_into_the_valley_of_electronic_death/)
Not only did I have to wrench this drawer open, but I also had to fish out virtually every obsolete cord to find what I was seeking. The pile of black, white and gray spaghetti seemed to mock me from the floor of my home office.
But I had a few laughs. Wow, was that a parallel cable that once linked an ancient desktop computer to a long-defunct printer? The connector was almost as wide as my fist. Its primitive form reminded me a Jurassic-era beast. And fittingly, it had been buried beneath a pile of USB cables. This was like excavating for dinosaurs in the way-out west!
For read the rest of Steve’s rant (and possibly sympathize), check out
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/journey_into_the_valley_of_electronic_death/
We all have a drawer or box brimming with ancient A/V wires. See what columnist Steve Castle found in his.
Maybe this has happened to you: I recently needed to find a little wire for an electronics device and opened what I call the Valley of Electronic Death. It’s a drawer in an old desk that’s chock full of every kind of computer cable/adapter/telephone cord I’d probably used in the past decade or so but probably hadn’t used in the previous 24 months.
http://www.electronichouse.com/images/uploads/0407-wire-nest.jpg (http://www.electronichouse.com/article/journey_into_the_valley_of_electronic_death/)
Not only did I have to wrench this drawer open, but I also had to fish out virtually every obsolete cord to find what I was seeking. The pile of black, white and gray spaghetti seemed to mock me from the floor of my home office.
But I had a few laughs. Wow, was that a parallel cable that once linked an ancient desktop computer to a long-defunct printer? The connector was almost as wide as my fist. Its primitive form reminded me a Jurassic-era beast. And fittingly, it had been buried beneath a pile of USB cables. This was like excavating for dinosaurs in the way-out west!
For read the rest of Steve’s rant (and possibly sympathize), check out
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/journey_into_the_valley_of_electronic_death/