Have you ever stuck anything into these slots?

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Kind of a random idea for a topic, but thought it would be fun to suggest some random slots (not just the ones from this OP, I want other people to suggest slots too), and see if anyone recognizes them or has ever stuck anything into them. And, please name your slots, for those who may be curious to check them out. These aren't necessarily supposed to be obscure/see who can come up with a slot no one has ever stuck anything into, more just sharing of random slots. And so don't just post a list of "No, yes, no, no, yes, no" etc. to the OP, share some slots of your own too.


PCMCIA

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Parallel Port

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Zip Drive

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S-Video

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Serial Port

serial_port.jpg



5.25" Floppy Drive

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Now, let's see some slots.

(Also, yes, innuendos all over this OP. And I didn't even get into the whole "male/female" labelling of devices).
 
terrisus said:
Kind of a random idea for a topic, but thought it would be fun to suggest some random slots (not just the ones from this OP, I want other people to suggest slots too), and see if anyone recognizes them or has ever stuck anything into them. And, please name your slots, for those who may be curious to check them out. These aren't necessarily supposed to be obscure/see who can come up with a slot no one has ever stuck anything into, more just sharing of random slots. And so don't just post a list of "No, yes, no, no, yes, no" etc. to the OP, share some slots of your own too.


PCMCIA

yes


Parallel Port

yes before i started a company in the field i use to make components with DB 25 and 50. took hours.


Zip Drive
No

S-Video

yes


Serial Port

yes.


5.25" Floppy Drive
no



Now, let's see some slots.
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All of the above. I'm definitely old.

My first wi-fi card was an 802.11b card that plugged into a PCMCIA slot. My first printer used the parallel port, I've plugged multiple consoles into an S-Video port over the years, owned a zip drive for a long time, used a serial port for tons of purposes, and still have a fully function Apple IIgs with a 5.25" floppy drive. I just played Oregon Trail on it a couple months ago, even. :)

As for 'alternative' slots -- how about these?

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GPIB (also known as IEEE-488) - this one was used a lot on older test and measurement devices (like oscilloscopes) to allow remote control of devices. The Commodore PET also used the bus, but with a different connector.

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SCSI. SCSI came in a lot of forms - this is just one representative example. If you wanted to externally attach a device like a CD-ROM drive or hard drive to your computer in the pre-USB days, this is what you generally used.
 
Damaniel said:
My first wi-fi card was an 802.11b card that plugged into a PCMCIA slot. My first printer used the parallel port, I've plugged multiple consoles into an S-Video port over the years, used a serial port for tons of purposes
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Same on all of those ones for me.
Of yours, no on the first, but yes on the SCSI. It may be a scuzzy slot, but it works.
 
Funny story about PS/2 slots: When the Playstation 2 came out, I figured there would be a much of confusion between PS/2 slots and the abbreviation for that system, PS2.
 
Never a Zip drive or S Video. In the UK at least, SCART was used instead of S Video generally speaking, but I have seen the ports and cables.

I'm only 23 so I only encountered 5.25" Floppy disks when I was very young; we used them at school for a couple of years. 3.5" floppies on the other hand were something I heavily used until around the turn of the millenium.
 
Everything shown or listed so far.

Also used some funky ass formats like Jazz drives, tape drives, Super 3.5 diskettes and many others.
 
The computer pin ports: Probably, can't remember if I used those specific ones but I'm old enough that I probably technically used them at school or whatever.

S-Video: Yes yes yes. Got a cheapo TV with them in 2004 and mainly left composite behind then. Then on the HDTV I got it was the best way to play SNES games as it'd just look like interpolation in an emulator rather than a hideous bleeding mess like composite.

Floppy Discs: Anyone past 25 who used computers at a young age HAD to have used those.

EDIT: Oh and Zip Drives. Yeah, they seemed great, loads of storage space and seemed to be the floppies of the future. Then USB thumbdrives went "lol magnetic storage."
 
Serial - I used to use this to update the firmware of my "Watch all the channels" Satellite Box.

Parallel Port (DB25) - I still use them to make universal fightstick adapters.
Like this one.
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MikeHattsu said:
Did anybody ever use their ExpressCard 54 slot?

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Had a computer with one once, but never used it.




I've used 3.5 ones, but not 5.25 ones.
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Yup, I used the one in my previous laptop to add two USB 3.0 slots. There are some SSDs that use that slot as well.
 
I used S-video for every Nintendo system up until the GameCube as well as the PS1 and PS2. It's pretty close to the quality of 480i on component.
 
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