This weeks edition coming moments from now...

How’d you take a picture of my cable box?!?!??
(Puts tinfoil hat back on)
(-.-)

USB, DVI lol

I'm 53 and I have that box of cables which I have lost, so I had to go to Amazon to buy yet more cables.

Serial

S terial DB 25 cables make excellent connections from a model rocket launch controller to the launch racks. Allows control in groups of six pads, put 6 25' cables together and achieve 150' safety distance for high power rockets. Retired from teaching after 30 years, made the double hockey sticks (77) last year. 30 rod launch system now 20 years old and I'm even older and still flying rockets. This has no relevance to any previous comments. Maybe a little to some age related.

Danke.

Hmmm...I smell a "Catch"!

Laughing

Laughing...it only works on Humans...

HB...buddy

Planting politicians would be productive for the greater good, although nothing good would grow.

Not with Cat5!!!

Is the uP really involved in reconstructing the serial stream?

It's faster, but still a serial architecture rather than a parallel one. And despite the speed of the transfer, you still get a bottleneck at the processor when you have to weave in the various information streams. What you end up with is another piece of hardware (or some bloated, flaky software) which tries to sort all this out and present it to the memory registers in a decipherable fashion. All they're really doing is shifting the bottleneck from the I/O to the processing system and then throwing a bunch of dedicated cores at management.

LMAO and Happy Birthday allosaur! I have a box of cables, everything except the one I need. Anyone in the Gulch have a spare HDMI cable for sale? My Radio Shack keyboard wants to handshake my computer with the mixer app.

What about SATA3?

Unfortunately, development hasn't continued on SCSI to advance the speeds like with USB. One of the things that set SCSI apart was that SCSI is a parallel bus architecture with addressing for hundreds of devices where ISA and its progeny were built on a dedicated bus architecture. For a personal computer with only one or two drives, SCSI wasn't cost-competitive. But for servers, SCSI ruled in terms of throughput, etc. In fact, many of the other ISA-based technologies (including SATA) just played software games in order to string multiple devices on the same bus.

Just one more example of cheap winning out over superior.

Bet you've seen me show this before, but this is my favorite Big Al hunting video.
Originally saw the whole show on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yv7...

Thanks. Elephant jokes were popular when me dino started my corrections career back in 1982.

Ha..the phone one reminds me of the day was giving away "stuff" rather then pay to tractor it to another state had one of those Princess on the wall phones, now wish I kept it but am not a keeper of "stuff"....kid maybe 30 years younger then me laughed because on the phone was the original sticker sent Dial 911 in case of emergency....he laughed you had to be reminded of that silly kid never would understand the letters and numbers no doubt on a rotary : )))

I am a huge Mac advocate (of course been beat into submission by the wannabie Windows), and Apple adopted SCSI quite early. Are you saying it remains throughput-competitive with USB, or just the communication architecture is?

Hehe. I used to build SCSI drives. It's still a far better architecture for data transfer using multiple devices than USB...

I still have a box of CAT5e cable - like hundreds of feet - along with the crimpers and jacks. But seriously - have you ever tried hooking up a wireless printer?

Awesome! Definitely needed those today!