I'd moved recently, but I still've not managed to thoroughly organize all of my belongings in my new apartment.
As such I'm periodicly cleaning things bit by bit, packing things back into rubbermaid boxes, and so forth. As yet, I'm only wanting for a pair of vice grips I've misplaced. They were good, beefy ones too.
However, tonight I happened upon a pass-through cable for my old Voodoo 2 card, and I've been struck by nostalgia, hence the inspiration for this update.
I think it's twofold, or perhaps even three, why I'm so fond of this little widget. A pass-through cable isn't very complicated at all. It's a standard male db-15 connector on one end, and a standard female db-15 connector on the other.
A db-15 connector is the kind of plug you use for the monitor on your computer, unless you have dvi, in which case your geekpenis is bigger than mine. Regardless, it's a little cable, not 6 inches long, that you would use to connect your conventional 2-d graphics card to the voodoo-2. The voodoo-2 card would then act as a simple repeater, taking whatever came in over the passthrough input, and spew it back out at the monitor unless you happened to be playing a game that used 3dfx's drivers.
Why am I so happy about this? Well maybe its because the connector says "SPACE SHUTTLE" in the print on the side along with the heat tolerances of the cable. Or maybe it's the nostalgia of my very first 3-d graphics card, back when you had to be a real fucking geek to even own such a thing, and a Voodoo-2 was the Enzo Ferrari of computer gaming (or at a bare minimum, the BMW M5). Or maybe it's just the engineer in me, delighting at such a completely awesome hack foisted upon consumers at large. I mean, how cheap is it to ship a graphics card that only processes 3-d graphics and relies on some chintzy space shuttle component to make your computer usable?
That, my friends, is awesomeness at work. It's the kind of awesomeness that inspires me to write in my dilapidated, continually neglected porn-site journal.
As such I'm periodicly cleaning things bit by bit, packing things back into rubbermaid boxes, and so forth. As yet, I'm only wanting for a pair of vice grips I've misplaced. They were good, beefy ones too.
However, tonight I happened upon a pass-through cable for my old Voodoo 2 card, and I've been struck by nostalgia, hence the inspiration for this update.
I think it's twofold, or perhaps even three, why I'm so fond of this little widget. A pass-through cable isn't very complicated at all. It's a standard male db-15 connector on one end, and a standard female db-15 connector on the other.
A db-15 connector is the kind of plug you use for the monitor on your computer, unless you have dvi, in which case your geekpenis is bigger than mine. Regardless, it's a little cable, not 6 inches long, that you would use to connect your conventional 2-d graphics card to the voodoo-2. The voodoo-2 card would then act as a simple repeater, taking whatever came in over the passthrough input, and spew it back out at the monitor unless you happened to be playing a game that used 3dfx's drivers.
Why am I so happy about this? Well maybe its because the connector says "SPACE SHUTTLE" in the print on the side along with the heat tolerances of the cable. Or maybe it's the nostalgia of my very first 3-d graphics card, back when you had to be a real fucking geek to even own such a thing, and a Voodoo-2 was the Enzo Ferrari of computer gaming (or at a bare minimum, the BMW M5). Or maybe it's just the engineer in me, delighting at such a completely awesome hack foisted upon consumers at large. I mean, how cheap is it to ship a graphics card that only processes 3-d graphics and relies on some chintzy space shuttle component to make your computer usable?
That, my friends, is awesomeness at work. It's the kind of awesomeness that inspires me to write in my dilapidated, continually neglected porn-site journal.
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