Comments on: [Survival Tip] Old Time Technology Trader

By: nitro2k01

nitro2k01 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:38:39 +0000

I’m already there to a certain degree, although I mostly have slightly more modern stuff. Eg, I have both a laplink cable and a 1:1 parallell cable. (Or rather, simply a DB 25 male-male extension cable) And I used the laplink cable just yesterday.
Btw, have you heard about Freecycle?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:55:41 +0000

This post kinda touches on an idea I came up with recently: A cable/charger library.

Over the past several weeks I have run into a few situations where I (or one of my friends) needed a particular cable or charger. In a couple of cases I thought I had the missing link, but if I did I couldn’t find it amidst the mass of cables and chargers I own (er, hoard?).

Anyway what is needed is some place to donate all the old chargers/cables/connectors that you don’t need or even know what they are. It seems silly to throw this stuff away. Inevitably, once you get rid of something you find you could use it a few months down the line. I would love to have a place to donate this electronic ephemera that I could also rummage around in when I need something.

So, yeah, I’m with you.

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:36:49 +0000

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:36:04 +0000

Specializing in batteries of all types would be another cool post-apoc profession