We have since rectified the situation, but the point is mostly why take a cable from a random computer that clearly has a use when you could just ask someone if we have spares somewhere.
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I know! I know! I know! I know the answer!
Wonder if it’s the same “child” that left a nice mess on one of the benches in the ELab.
Including a nice hot glue gun that doesn’t a committee color on it. Donation to ELab?
I just bugged @mreynolds and he said he thinks it was before noon yesterday but he wasn’t sure of an exact time.
Around noon?
Yeah so someone (sorry, cant recall whom, I was engrossed in leather stuff) went to use the computer but couldn’t get it to work, so my 11 year old problem solved and found the cable missing (step 1, is it plugged in)
I borrowed a cable from @StanSimmons hoping the original would find it’s way home.
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Your son has a future in IT.
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As nick said, no buses, no theft accusations intended. When I read your thread looking for the display cables, none of the photos posted came close to looking like any of the cables I had on the Cinema Display I used with a Mac Pro from about 2004-2011 or 12. Couldn’t imagine that somebody would have wanted to acquire mass quantities of cinema displays that were much older than that. Especially since you mentioned Thunderbolt connections, and i knew from my own experiences trying to get an external backup drive for the Mac that Apple went through FireWire and FireWire 2 before going to Thunderbolt. (My display had FireWire.) The photos posted looked more like power blocks to a laptop. But there were people chiming in about this apple thing or that apple thing they had donated to the space, and maybe they were still around. Hence my thought that the computer in question might have had the type of cable that you were looking for.
So… Mea Culpa.
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Which is the Adobe Computer? The one with 2 screens (one being a digitizer)? All three CA computers have the Adobe suite.
Out of curiosity, what cable went missing? @mreynolds
FYI - Only Software Dev and VCC committees have Apple computers at the MakerSpace.
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That explains why my TV stopped working.
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Hanging head in shame. Now I get the “that’s a stretch” comment. I read Apple where Nicole trumped Adobe. Two five letter words that begin with the letter “A”. But no excuse. Just old age, I guess.
BUT in Apple business, I was just wandering around the UNT surplus sale, and they had a couple of teeny Apple monitors for sale with the notation “with power block”. But they were only the monitor with the attached cable that connects to the cpu. No “blocks” attached or in the vicinity.
Asked the manager, and he said he thought somebody appropriated the blocks for campus use and didn’t tell him. Figures, huh.
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It was the 3 pin power cable
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