Memes

It's how we connected monitors to our PCs. Before I had DVI I used that to connect my desktop to my monitor. My old laptop had that port but now they have HDMI, adding audio and some other features I never use.

It's a VGA connector, used for screens. You can still find them if you look hard enough.

Why are you using VGA when DVI-D exists? Or Displayport for that matter.

I sort of miss the screws too but it's so much better when a cable accidentally gets yanked and it just comes right out instead of transmitting the force into whatever it's attached to.

Other than niche Keysight gear that's has three layers of nameplates because it's '90s vintage NOS, LXI and USB-TMC have replaced GPIB.

just for fun

Someone accidentally tapped before/after drawing those arrows.

those slots were near useless.

edit to say: one trick was to use the blank expansion slot plates to gently break the vice like grip the screw had in the hex stand-off. the metal used on the cheap "digit remover" cases was sometimes soft enough to loosen the thumb screws via the driver slot without the thumb screw breaking.

still nearly useless though.

Then one side of the driver notch shears off