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Any use for VGA cables in 2019?

dulcificum

dulcificum

dulcificum

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I'm clearing out my cable drawer and along with tons of kettle plugs, I have ********* of VGA cable I can't see myself ever using. Any use for them or donate/recycle/freegle them?
 
Doubt they'll get much interest. I also seem to have a surplus of VGA/DVI/HDMI cables. Even one of the DVIs, which was a heavy duty uber premium one that probably cost about £30 when I bought it - they all got 0 interest on eBay when I once tried to sell them. Those who actually want a cable can just buy a new one from a Chinese seller for barely more than the cost of postage.
 
99% of people with a pc use one but since they usually come with monitors not many people want them.. Hard to sell since they are so cheap.. Stick them in Facebook as free collection?
 
I cant see them being much use for computing applications unless you have some older equipment, like a really old server maybe, that you need to maintain long term. They are used for non-display purposes in audio engineering though, e.g to control guitar amps, but that's relatively specialised and not an industry standard.
 
I threw about 30 of them away last month,they had been sat in a carrier bag in the garage growing in number over the years..i think they were breeding with the scart leads in there too.
 
fastboy said:
I threw about 30 of them away last month,they had been sat in a carrier bag in the garage growing in number over the years..i think they were breeding with the scart leads in there too.
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Same here. I happened to find a 3.5" floppy disc in the bag too. Now I'm mildly interested in finding out what's on the floppy disk I'll have to keep the IDE cables that were in the bag and locate a floppy drive.
 
Gti said:
Same here. I happened to find a 3.5" floppy disc in the bag too. Now I'm mildly interested in finding out what's on the floppy disk I'll have to keep the IDE cables that were in the bag and locate a floppy drive.
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Nothing worse than finding a random unmarked disc. I do it with cd's now I don't have a drive anymore.
 
I hear you on that one,my daughter was asking me if I had one for her old VHS player as she wanted to transfer some video to pc.
 
yes that's what I had,scart plug with 3 phono sockets and a switch for in and out and connected to a usb stick,worked a treat
 
dulcificum said:
I'm clearing out my cable drawer and along with tons of kettle plugs, I have ********* of VGA cable I can't see myself ever using. Any use for them or donate/recycle/freegle them?
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I still have a VGA monitor for my Microservers so I keep a VGA lead.
 
I've never had more than two monitors using VGA at a time and never more than one in this house so I'm at loss as to how I've accumulated five of the breeders.
 
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