Hey Nerds, Help Me Identify This

Sorry for the confusing pic, but

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

nah, only about 7 inches long. Two female into one male.

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there were two of them, the other one is what you see below my hand.

it's a wire

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Yoshi's right.

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It's a nerd contest. No one else had a chance.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Two female into one male.

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Those cables know how to party.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

there were two of them, the other one is what you see below my hand.

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In that case

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Yoshi's right.

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It's just an old PC nine pin serial splitter.

The only thing I got from this is SSJN didn't have the big sausage fingers I expected him to.

Plot twist: that's not his hand

Never handle your own cords if someone else will handle them for you.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I believe they're two player adapters for old PCs that only had one port on the back.

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Old PC joysticks used a 15-pin MIDI port, not the com port. The connector looked like this (on the left)
http://c1.zzounds.com/media/quality,...663cd8f4f1.jpg

This just looks like an extension cable to me. Possibly for an old-school mouse, or a game controller or anything that used that standard 9-pin connector.

Extension cables don't have Y-splits in them. Opaque pasted a link to exactly the item.