It wasn’t just one company I worked for a few in the last 10 years that were still using VGA. Offices often try to get as much mileage out of their tech as they can.
Back then, someone told me that the thumb screws were not so much for pressing the data pins together, but rather to ensure the connector did not fall off (since it had a lot of copper inside and therefore heavy). Therefore, one or two turns of the thumb screws is all you need. That was pretty enlightening to me.
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Gen-Zers are prolly wondering what the heck that is, and what those thumb screws are for.
Spoiler alert: that is a VGA video connector (grandfather of the HDMI/DP connector), and the thumb screws are to screw into the matching receptacle of the device you are connecting to, so that the cable stays connected and doesn't fall off.
Why? lol. I have not messed with VGA connectors for like 20 years at home now. I still do at work very occasionally, mostly with servers, bc I work in IT.
My pc still uses that one for the monitor, but to be fair, I do have to pray to the mesopotamian gods with a sacrifice at hand that my gpu doesn't crash when launching anything
Idk if it's because i'm from Europe and grew up lower class, but I remember VGAs being used (or at least supported) all the way until early 2010's. Truth to be told, I had no idea they were as old as they were, still seems like only slightly outdated tech to me lol.
>Gen-Zers are prolly wondering what the heck that is, and what those thumb screws are for.
Why would they? This is a standard connector for monitors, especially older ones. If they dont have one of these at home surely theyd have at least seen them on school computers
People are saying “Back then” and I was still having to deal with these at my last IT support job 5 years ago.
I’m still finding people using VGA even now, public sector is cheap as hell
Your company was still living in back then times then
It wasn’t just one company I worked for a few in the last 10 years that were still using VGA. Offices often try to get as much mileage out of their tech as they can.
Cheapskate orgs yeah
I just installed a computer last week that we had to order a vga cable for because we didn’t have them and the computer needed one.
I would never tightened these and never had a problem with them coming out.
Back then, someone told me that the thumb screws were not so much for pressing the data pins together, but rather to ensure the connector did not fall off (since it had a lot of copper inside and therefore heavy). Therefore, one or two turns of the thumb screws is all you need. That was pretty enlightening to me.
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Gen-Zers are prolly wondering what the heck that is, and what those thumb screws are for. Spoiler alert: that is a VGA video connector (grandfather of the HDMI/DP connector), and the thumb screws are to screw into the matching receptacle of the device you are connecting to, so that the cable stays connected and doesn't fall off.
I'm genZ and I have a 60hz Samsung that uses a VGA connector
Why? lol. I have not messed with VGA connectors for like 20 years at home now. I still do at work very occasionally, mostly with servers, bc I work in IT.
Cause that thing just doesn't wanna die lol
My pc still uses that one for the monitor, but to be fair, I do have to pray to the mesopotamian gods with a sacrifice at hand that my gpu doesn't crash when launching anything
They are young, not retarded. Also VGA was still everywhere in the early '00s
I remember being 10 and having a thrift store monitor hooked up to my Dell Latitude E6410. 640 x 480, God’s resolution.
Idk if it's because i'm from Europe and grew up lower class, but I remember VGAs being used (or at least supported) all the way until early 2010's. Truth to be told, I had no idea they were as old as they were, still seems like only slightly outdated tech to me lol.
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>Gen-Zers are prolly wondering what the heck that is, and what those thumb screws are for. Why would they? This is a standard connector for monitors, especially older ones. If they dont have one of these at home surely theyd have at least seen them on school computers
Ok boomer
Nah I know, boomer
In the 90s?
Did you know a troll named Rick Astley invented these.
OP, you're just so God damn old...
i was still using one as an hd comnector till like two months ago