Re:Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
by anonsivalley652 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:43AM
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VGA is DE-15 (3 rows), DE-9 (erroneously called DB-9) is 2 rows. ;) Interestingly, VGA only really needs 6 pins to operate: R G B VSYNC HSYNC & GND, and monochrome only needs 4.
I don't see how that's possible without really crushing it in there. Also, CGA & EGA were the same connector as serial (DE-9), which would've been easier to confuse.
It could've been worse: I knew a guy in high-school who plugged a parallel printer into a Mac classic's SCSI DB-25 (the same physical connector as a parallel port, female on the computer; DB-25 serial is a male connector on a PC) and baked it into "apple pie" with that "lovely" magic smoke aroma.
I don't see how that's possible without really crushing it in there. Also, CGA & EGA were the same connector as serial (DE-9), which would've been easier to confuse.
It could've been worse: I knew a guy in high-school who plugged a parallel printer into a Mac classic's SCSI DB-25 (the same physical connector as a parallel port, female on the computer; DB-25 serial is a male connector on a PC) and baked it into "apple pie" with that "lovely" magic smoke aroma.