Back when radio shack was there to help you figure out how to connect the thing to the other thing. The usual problem was you had the one multi-colored thing, and the thing it was supposed to connect to did not have matching colors or matching anything at all.
wasnt about getting the colors right (which was a challenged trying to get cables connected in tight confines…) it was about how fucking tight those sockets were, and the closer the plugs were, the tighter they were by some bizarre happenstance, so ones super tight up against eachother like that would be near impossible to shove in, especially in cramped confines that you typically had to work in.
The struggle was, when the power was already attached and not easily reached without moving furniture and you had to switch something, thus trying to this without seeing.
Idk about everyone else but these were heavy-ass blocks of metal and plastic that were placed on these tiny-ass desks that felt like they’d tip over if I turned them around enough. I literally had to put my head against the wall to be able to see between the little gap I had to work with. lol
I worked at Best Buy and you’ll be amazed at how many people couldn’t figure that out. I was also a genius for showing my in-laws how to select input to display their dvd player.
I had two pieces of equipment to connect and when I matched the colors it wouldn’t work. I had to swap two of the colors. I think they misprinted the colors on the unit.
They were faking it. When I was 12, I was pretty smart with tech, but I was not allowed to touch my grandpa’s projector. (It’s because if you didn’t turn it off properly, the bulb would burn out).
He also did some work with ibm back in the 80s, and he didn’t really like kids, so that might have something to do with it.
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