If you don’t have the right thing.
They can be very useful to get incompatible things working.
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I doubt if putting all that on a SCSI port would be successful
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It’s the only way I can connect to social media. 
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How timely …
I have just installed a computer for a client the tower had a ESSENTIELB HDMI as the graphics card. Which I had a adapter to convert it to hdmi, but the screen had only svga input, so had to use hdmi to svga adaptor then a vga cable to the screen.
The original cable had been broken in transit and the only screen I had in stock to replace the broken screen was vga.
No idea how the client broke the cable, never seen one go like this, think she ripped it out of the socket in anger over something.
Saved by the adaptor kit thats been in my workshop far too long and never thought I would need it
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There’s a special adapter you can get for problems like that.
No need for an old kit.
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I forgave her … she is 92 and pays well
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Imagine selecting whuch usb to unmount
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No prob for old folk.
Things are deliberately designed to make life easy for the elderly.
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That sounds… pretty desperate.
Perhaps you need to see a therapist? 
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Yes, I’ll be seeing Donald Trump in his consulting room soon. 
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But you will have to wait till be has done with mememe and henry… (disaster tourist, ambulance chasers) opps political danger area !
@Gary
Please explain all the adapters and why is it being used!!!
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You need help so lets sing along
Hahaha
Interested to know if at the end the connections show work, sadly I doubt, usb ok but the first image to get to a jack plug doubt !
Perhaps we should run a competition name tha part …
I got scsi, to rs232, to vga, to ps2, to network adaptor, to jack plug but ttere were a couple in the middle around network connections i could not remember
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Sad/tragic : I have a bunch of stuff like those connectors!
AUI tranceivers 
COAX (thin ethernet) terminators and elbows
(I also have a plastic crate full of RG58 coax)
Centronics SCSI adaptors
PS/2 to DIN keyboard adaptor
Can’t tell if those things are RS232 or VGA in the middle…
I wouldn’t be surprised if that port in the side of the 2nd AUI tranceiver is power from keyboard circuit - I have two Xircom Parallel port ethernet dongles that draw power from a P/2 port… That cable coming out of the 2nd AUI tranceiver will be 15 pin - looks for all intents and purposes like the original joystick port on a PC (and some Macs use that layout for display) - but it’s not…
Never had / saw anything to convert (connect - not actual “conversion”) COAX to audio jack (1/4")… I did work in a building where the lift security access to the non-public floors was a a 1/4" audio type jack (that I had to get from security desk every time I came onsite) - and I tried a generic one and it worked! It was a museum - and that building is now demolished (it was riddled with asbestos) - the IT office / server room was on the non-public floor…
Worst computer design I EVER saw was a “generic” OEM laptop where the power connector was EXACTLY the same as the PS/2 connector - and - if you plugged the power into the PS/2 port you FRIED the laptop! How dumb!
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