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the five stages of cable standards

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

As I dig around my disaster of an office, searching for a standard power cable and finding everything else, I realize there are five apparent states for cables:

  1. Introduction: What the hell is a eSATA cable?
  2. Acquisition: Man, I guess I’d better buy another HDMI cable.
  3. Over-saturation: Why the hell do I have all these USB cables?
  4. Perceived obsolescence: I haven’t used a RS232 cable in years, so I guess I can throw these out.
  5. Desperation: Where the hell am I going to find a Commodore IEC cable?

I suppose I have had the right number of cables once or twice, but never for long.

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