[Noisebridge-discuss] Free cat5 and serial cables

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Albert Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:
> My company is tossing out a few hundred cat5 and serial cables. I'll
> grab some for Noisebridge (or if people just want them). They are nice
> 8' cables, but does Noisebridge need some or all of them? I know we do
> seem to have a surplus of crappy long cables, but I was thinking of
> grabbing a dozen or so at least.

These are great Al, thanks for bringing them in. The serial cables
seem to be null-modem pinouts, permitting DTE to DTE connectivity.
Super-useful!

The ethernet segments aren't that bad either. The chest that the box
is sitting on by the entrance has a ton of Cat5 and Cat5e segments,
but many don't have 8p8p heads or strain-relief boots on them either.
So, it may be worthwhile to go through and move useless and
lower-quality cables to a box by the hack shelves and switch them out
for some of the nice ones that you brought.

I may take this up one day.

--j