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Throwback Thor’s Day Trivia (UDTQ#96) - EGA Cable Pins

Happy Thor’s day, folks!

The Recap:

Yesterday’s question asked in which display type do the pixel elements themselves produce the light for the display, and 85% of you correctly chose OLED! For those unfamiliar with OLED, oled-info has this page which covers them more broadly than just their use in displays, but it seems to cover all of the bases, including some of the downsides.

Click to view yesterday's results

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The Ramble:

How often do you have to tell friends/family “I’m sorry, but that’s not something I can do for you.” in an IT sense?

Last night, I got a call from my grandparents, asking me to help recover one of their Facebook accounts. They got a new tablet and couldn’t figure out the password for the account that was tied to their old tablet.

I haven’t used Facebook for more than the very occasional chat I get in nearly a decade, and my SO never had an account, so I really wasn’t able to help them much over the phone. Especially since I was in the middle of purchasing a tool cabinet (that I would spend the rest of the day trying to load/unload in the rain, but that’s a story for another time.)

I’m going to try to make it out to help them this evening or tomorrow, I assume (read: hope) it should be fairly easy to recover, as long as it’s tied to either their phone number or email, but it got me wondering how often other folks have to “ruin the magic” and tell someone that’s not a task you can just snap your fingers and have done for them.

The Real Question:

Today’s question comes to us via @James404d so you can thank them for the bacon option :wink: :bacon:
I asked for a throwback display question, and they delivered! Thanks again!

How many pins are in an EGA cable?
  • 4
  • 9
  • 25
  • Bacon
  • I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more!
0 voters

The Rest:

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This is definitely feeling like “old timers week”… :smiley:

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Need an option to choose the “technically correct” answer AND Bacon

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:man_supervillain:

Mwahaha! Do you choose bacon, or do you choose to be correct?

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9th to answer, 8th to choose the correct answer (I remember this well!), but only the second to spice the topic. EGA used the same cable as CGA, but it changed with VGA.

Can’t believe no one has picked BACON yet!

How many of you clicked each word to reveal this annoying question?

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I did

Interesting note you can stack multiple [spoiler] tags on the same word, and they keep adding blur, but all of the [spoiler]s applied to that word drop when you click it. Fun!

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As did MDA and Hercules.

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it got me wondering how often other folks have to “ruin the magic” and tell someone that’s not a task you can just snap your fingers and have done for them.

My tickets are “there it’s fixed” and “I honestly have no idea but this seems like something out of our control and I cannot really help you” with little in between.

Also happens whenever my parents have issues with their printers. I have to explain to them that there are no good printers aside from the basic grey boxes Brother makes, but of course they want color printing and a scanner.

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Wow, now I’m feeling old, remembering the CGA cards that were bigger than some modern motherboards

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Bacon is always correct!

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All of the responses, correct and incorrect, need to have the “add bacon” option. Because bacon makes everything better!

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Keeper!

My nephew asks me to make websites for his business. I tell him I will install WordPress and teach him how to use it and that shuts him up because he doesn’t want to learn how to manage his own websites, he wants someone else to manage his websites.

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And I had to go look up the pinouts:

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I was so tempted to tell my SO’s father to just go to a local print shop the other day… She was so frustrated with him that she decided to buy him a cheap printer and give him an old laptop which is only to be used with said printer.

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Hmmm memory says it is :tv:… But Bacon… :bacon:

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Definitely! I remember when my employer switched from HP Vectra PC’s with CGA screens to EGA monitors - I could see the world in colour! It’s what pictures of Minecraft remind me of when I see them!

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Who you calling an old timer? Oh, yeah… I am old in IT years.

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It might be old, but it still works perfectly, so long as you know how to read it!

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(source: https://pixabay.com/photos/clock-alarm-clock-watch-time-old-1274699/)
I’ll see myself out now. :joy:
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I remember EGA - I started working right as VGA was becoming mainstream. Those were my “I’m an A/V tech, but IT is part of it” days.

I clicked all the words @CharlesHTN …

I have a side business; even there, I often send clients to their phone service providers to fix issues that are not in my scope. One person has finally gotten beyond the thought that I can fix ANY kind of computer. I told the same guy for years that social media wouldn’t do him any good because he was too busy serving the customers he already had. Then his kids set him up with a Facebook business page and proved it! (They are too busy to help him run it!)

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How often do you have to tell friends/family “I’m sorry, but that’s not something I can do for you.” in an IT sense?

several. Most of the time it is with tablets. We have some here at work, and it is going to be more. Not sure if they will be android or apple. Nobody in my immediate family has anything Mac, other than iPhones and tablets, so I know a few people that have Mac that I can call. I’ve been asked to help with a SPORTSMAN race car system, help with a PC attached to an alignment machine, home wifi routers, the list is endless.

BACON!
If you have a Menards close by, every so often they get in bacon if they have a food section. It is good bacon. And very reasonably priced.

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