Everyone has that box of cords/cable/interconnects..

[ahofer]

My aim is to have several boxes, with some sort of order. My Raspberry pi habit has added to the mess. 75 Ohm is on its way out.

USB A,B,C,lightning, DVI, Micro, Mini, HDMI, micro-HDMI, XLR, RCA, speaker, Cat-5, SD card read/write, power supplies, etc. And extension cords.

(yeah, those are KEF wireless and a sub over there)

 

[Fahzz]

The snakes on the wall are a nice touch.

 

[Chrispy]

I use large ziploc bags labeled by type in a filing cabinet drawer....

 

[Blumlein 88]

My comment upon seeing the thread title was going to be,"You've got it down to one box..........how, please tell me how"

Then I see your picture. HAHAHAHAHA!

 

[ahofer]

I use large ziploc bags labeled by type in a filing cabinet drawer....

You can see some ziplocs on the top left. Sorting USB cables by type. And larger compression bags for Cat-5.

 

[Katji]

I came here from RSS feed so I could see the bigger picture.

 

[Robin L]

The first of ten signs of a specific neurological disorder.

 

[dougi]

Yeah I need to sort out mine. You make a change or mod to the system and go "maybe I have the cable I need in the mess somewhere" but go and buy a new one anyway as you couldn't be bothered going through it.

 

[ahofer]

Coming along. The stretchy exercise bands only resemble wire. so they don't count.

Old streamers and laptop power supplies take up too much space. And I have a whole box of USB-A&B, vs USB-C/lightning. Speaker cable on the right (second canvas from the bottom, just after cat-5) and interconnects on the bottom left.

 

[Koloth]

Sh**.

Came to this thread expecting to have my neurosis confirmed as quite normal after all....
only to find out that if this amount is considered thread-worthy I truly have an issue.

I have a box bigger than any pictured above only with pc-internal data cables (I have f*king IDE cables!) Another box for external data cables (USB, firewire, ethernet, e-sata... i really loved e-sata). Another box for video cables (including about a dozend vga-dvi adapters of all sorts, s-video, goddamn SCART...) and finally a box for audio cables... Oh and then there's the non-cable pc internals in another box yet... (riser boards, RAM, screws, cages, motherboard shields, little fans and little rubber bands to decouple those fans from the case, cpu-cooler mounting plates for decades old sockets...)

 

[Berwhale]

This works for me...

There are 3 office moving crates full of audio, video and IT related cables in the garage. They get more and more tangled everytime I look for a cable in one.

 

[ahofer]

Sh**.

Came to this thread expecting to have my neurosis confirmed as quite normal after all....
only to find out that if this amount is considered thread-worthy I truly have an issue.

I have a box bigger than any pictured above only with pc-internal data cables (I have f*king IDE cables!) Another box for external data cables (USB, firewire, ethernet, e-sata... i really loved e-sata). Another box for video cables (including about a dozend vga-dvi adapters of all sorts, s-video, goddamn SCART...) and finally a box for audio cables... Oh and then there's the non-cable pc internals in another box yet... (riser boards, RAM, screws, cages, motherboard shields, little fans and little rubber bands to decouple those fans from the case, cpu-cooler mounting plates for decades old sockets...)

This is in a Manhattan apartment...does that make it better?

 

[frogmeat69]

LOL, I have no idea what I have, shit in boxes everywhere, need to do some serious house cleaning of stuff I just don't need anymore.
But you never know if S-Video cables will make a comeback.

 

[ahofer]

LOL, I have no idea what I have, shit in boxes everywhere, need to do some serious house cleaning of stuff I just don't need anymore.
But you never know if S-Video cables will make a comeback.

Yes - when I moved from the suburbs to a NYC apartment in 2018, I had to make some choices about obsolete technology. A lot of old PC connectors went out, S-video, component Video, etc.

 

[Mnyb]

Funny enough you still need to buy new cables the one you need is missing. I also discarded the s-videos and scart cables during the last move.
The move before that i've fond my Us Robotics telephone modem in a box

 

[Berwhale]

But you never know if S-Video cables will make a comeback.

I had to find one the other day so I could capture a VHS recording as an MKV file. I also had to borrow a VCR, buy a cheap USB capture device and find and learn how to use some open source video capture and editing software. This made my wife very happy, but I thought it was *a lot* of effort just to watch our wedding again

 

[Robin L]

I had to throw out boxes of the stuff before I moved. I'm not missing any of it.

 

[Michael Klein]

Very tidy. I love the way you store your items. I would use that way to store my DVI cable and HDMI

 

[Michael Klein]

Very tidy. I love the way you store your items. I would use that way to store my DVI cable and HDMI

I've bought ten boxes and I hope it could keep all my DVI cable and HDMI