[PLUG] Four Pounda PATA
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Oct 8 05:31:20 UTC 2024
They can be handy (particularly if they don't have keyed connectors
with one pin hole filled in) as extenders for a Raspberry Pi header.
How many do you have?
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Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:33 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at keithl.com> wrote:
>
> This afternoon I dug through my vast-heap-o-cables looking
> for POE injectors, and realized that there were WAY TOO
> MANY parallel IDE cables in that heap. None of my deployed
> machines or drives are IDE/PATA. I have some archived PATA
> drives, but I do not need more than one cable + spare and an
> IDE to PCI card to access those drives ... someday, if ever.
>
> Anyway, those excess cables might be useful for your hobby
> project that needs 40 slow interconnects; if so, they are
> yours. Let me know soon. Otherwise, copper recycling.
>
> Friends don't let friends drive PATA.
>
> Keith L.
>
> P.S. After all my digging and cleanup, I learned that two
> of my POE injectors are attached to a plywood board with
> two ancient Linksys WRT54GS access points on it. That was
> mounted in the attic of the house we moved from, 14 years
> ago. Those access points are NOT "free to a GOOD home",
> but I'll give them to you if I decide I DON'T like you. :-/
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom keithl at keithl.com
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