Cable storage

I use clear polythene bags which can be kept shut at top. Cables then don't get tangled up when in box or laptop travel bag.

I winnowed a lot out when we moved. I've used examples of all the remaining ones in the last couple of months, so unusually in this regard, I have to disagree.

The blue console cable is more likely to connect the Cisco box to a dial-up modem for remote emergency administration.

I carry a long parallel port laplink cable around with me all the time. I haven't needed it in 20 years.

Beer or wine bottle boxes, one for "mains", one for "network", one for "computer", one for "Audio/Video". No more than one box of each category, coiled and releasable cable tied. "Mains" is small stuff not 16A genset supply cables etc...

The centronics probably won't, the 25 pin serial might. B-)

When I need one I need it now not in a few days time.

One just has to have a purge on the boxes every few years.

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That's what I'm using now, but storing things coiled up and cable tied makes them all kinky when you come to use them.

I was thinking of buying one of those rows of coat hooks to hang them over.

I know these from labs:

The German word for that is "cable rake" :-)

Adjustable teeth:

Thomas Prufer

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we had those at work. They did the job.

I've still got a centronics printer interface.

I just hope now that I've kept the cable for it.

Owain

I'll have one in my box if you need one.

Don't worry, I have one somewhere. It fits the Epson needle printer with the fanfold paper; the tube of black metal stamp ink for re-inking the pad that keeps the ribbon inkend is somewhere, too. Refilling inks was done even back then...

Thomas Prufer

Should have spoken up before I moved & threw mine away.

You can still buy them. I recently cut one in half to make a cable to connect a points controller to a railway layout I am helping to build. Quite cheap from CPC.

You must be doing something wrong.

The only kinky cables (ooh Betty) I have are only kinky beacuse the fing stupid manufacturers effectively fold the cable up in the packaging rather than leave the coil as a circle.

Long cables (>3 m) need coiling properly so that the twists cancel out and you don't end up with a spring laying on the floor when you just take and end a walk away from the coil. As you coil it you alternate the direction of the twist required to form that loop.

Quite possibly, given it's the story of my life.

And the cheap PVC used as a covering for most cables doesn't help either. Seems to keep a memory of how it was stored. TRS or silicone is so much better. ;-)

Try boxer shorts.