A guy traded in some random stuff, a pair of these db-9 adapters were included. Any ideas as to what they were for? Only marking on them is "taiwan."
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A guy traded in some random stuff, a pair of these db-9 adapters were included. Any ideas as to what they were for? Only marking on them is "taiwan."
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Atari extension cables?
nah, only about 7 inches long. Two female into one male.
connecting old ass shit
It looks Atari-ish to me.
Lefty adapter for systems that use Atari compatible joysticks?
I believe they're two player adapters for old PCs that only had one port on the back.
I believe I had one of these back in the day, but can't remember what for.
I've had an ancient-ass 'parts box' that had something like this in it at some point, yeah.
Yoshi's right. (WEIRD)
Are they single cables that are male on one end and female on the other? Your picture almost makes it look like all four ends are one cord.
If they are, that is some old ass PC shit right there. Those might even just be male to female cables to keep ports from getting broken when a lot of swapping is happening.
Sorry for the confusing pic, but
there were two of them, the other one is what you see below my hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
it's a wire
It's a nerd contest. No one else had a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Those cables know how to party.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
In that caseQuote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
It's just an old PC nine pin serial splitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
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.
Old PC joysticks used a 15-pin MIDI port, not the com port. The connector looked like this (on the left)Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
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.
SSJN is so rich from his videogame empire that he pays people to hold stuff for him.Quote:
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Words for life.Quote:
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I just presume he has a flying chair like Baron Harkonnen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Ah, I was still on page 1 and hadn't seen that. I thought it was two different cables. Yes, COM port splitter indeed, probably from the days when that was the primary mouse port and you'd need it for other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi