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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by KaosuHamoni » 08 Mar 2011, 16:21

Is it a Scart to VGA/DVI connector? I'm probably wrong.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Fuzz422365117 » 08 Mar 2011, 22:41

wokka1 wrote:This is a technical object from my job, will accept close answers, but the closest wins...
Is it some sort of old-fashioned flashdrive?
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by The Bum » 08 Mar 2011, 23:29

Is it something that ports something into something else?
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by MKindy » 08 Mar 2011, 23:42

I scoured Google for like an hour and came up with nothing.

I'm guessing: The DB9 port connects to some sort of dumb terminal that's used to review data from or directly control SCSI devices. The RJ45 either allows the same thing, or is used to give additional networking capabilities to the dumb terminal that's plugged in to the DB9.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by wokka1 » 09 Mar 2011, 10:51

An hour? WoW! it wasn't worth that much trouble.

We had a lot of good guesses, but the object is an interface module for a phone system to ethernet. The db-9 is a diagnostics port, and what Sneaky thought was a led screen is just a sticker. Bad quality phone pic, sorry. It also adds a bit to the mystery of it though.

Everyone who guessed it was a scsi connector or the like were slightly in the ball-park, because it uses the same centronics-50 connector, but many things besides scsi uses that.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Cho » 09 Mar 2011, 10:56

huh - I never would have thought phones...
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 10 Mar 2011, 15:22

I have one!
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Wildwill002 » 10 Mar 2011, 15:31

bottom of a microwave???
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by vallorn » 10 Mar 2011, 15:41

Wildwill002 wrote:bottom of a microwave???
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 10 Mar 2011, 16:00

Nope
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Cho » 10 Mar 2011, 16:06

bottom of a toaster oven
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 10 Mar 2011, 16:21

Again, Nope.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by SneakyPie » 10 Mar 2011, 16:22

Somewhere, a robot is desperately trying to find its face.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by RexDark » 10 Mar 2011, 16:34

Is it a part of a PC case?
Like something to hold up your hard-disk or something...
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 10 Mar 2011, 16:49

Closer.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Lord_Mountbatten » 10 Mar 2011, 16:53

A 34th century child?
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Post by Serubin323 » 10 Mar 2011, 16:54

On the dot lord! lol no
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by MKindy » 10 Mar 2011, 16:56

Is it the backside of a motherboard mounting plate?
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Wildwill002 » 10 Mar 2011, 17:01

Is it a piece of metal that has been forced to change its shape?
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 10 Mar 2011, 17:10

Nope
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Skunk_Giant » 11 Mar 2011, 05:50

A happy face? XD
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Toaster of Agility » 11 Mar 2011, 06:04

Part of an optical drive tray?
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 11 Mar 2011, 06:31

Skunk, yes xD, but no and no but getting closer
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Blackadder51 » 11 Mar 2011, 07:24

Bottomof boozey beer bottle?

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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 11 Mar 2011, 07:31

Haha, No but that would be nice :P
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by SneakyPie » 11 Mar 2011, 07:37

Looks like a mounting tray of some kind.

A couple of guesses:

The panel the MoBo sits on.

The tray the DVD Drive sits in.

The tray the HDD sits in.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 11 Mar 2011, 07:56

Close enough power supply tray. Good job Sneaky!
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by wokka1 » 11 Mar 2011, 11:17

Nice, I dreamt about this last night for some reason (does that count as dreaming about minecraft?), and figured out in my dream that it was an access panel on the back of my oven at home.
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by Serubin323 » 11 Mar 2011, 11:39

Lol I have entered his dreams! I can now make him give me fun stuff like blocks and blocks of diamond! Hehe. but you still got it wrong. :P
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Re: What The Devil Is That?!

Post by MKindy » 11 Mar 2011, 15:53

Here's my entry in the competition:
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First person to guess correctly wins a diamond pickaxe! :D
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