@foone perhamps… Paralleller SCSI

@foone parallel port 3.2 gen2x2

@foone Mmmm. SCSI.

@foone oh god I have a vision of a 3+ slot parallel card with a single port, enough to make Nvidia blush.

It only makes sense, we are up to 64 bit systems after all

@foone D-256

@foone Tired: D-Submini

Wired: D-Supermacro

@foone @xgranade I feel like if you plugged this in it would get … very warm

@foone

"Grandma, why did you have so many wires?"

#oof

@foone 8 differential pairs per colour, except doubled up because you send two interlaced lines at once.

@foone 2 x ∞

@foone "Just one more prong, bro. Please, bro. C'mon, just one more. Just one more prong. PLEASE, BRO."

@foone

SCSI Committee: "It needs more pins!"

@foone Don’t you mean a … parallel universe?

(Dad joke, letting itself out the room. I’ll be here all week)

@foone drew like a dark and fucked up version of a parallel port haha. just a glimpse into my dark reality. a full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane lmao

-aurora

@foone A DigiBoard! I didn't know they made those in PCI Express, I've only seen ISA ones.

@foone For anyone wondering (like I was a while ago) why all the cool parallel interfaces went away and everything is serial now: Apparently the answer is crosstalk. 😔

The signals on the parallel wires interfere with each other at higher speeds and longer lengths, so it's faster and more practical to just send info serially.

@foone And also Firewire never existed

@foone Ultra ultra ultra wide SCSI

@foone outdoor view

@foone now that’s a solid connector. And to connect an older one, you’d screw on something like the DB25/DE9 converters for a few EUR.

@foone while the physical connector is standardised in the german DIN standards system, the electrical properties of the pin assignments are not

@foone 128 bit ISA bus could fix me

@foone
"Two more pins will fix it"

@foone LTP-C

@foone They'd still call it USB, though; Unmanageably Sized Bus.

@foone
"I need gigabit throughput."
"Alright, I'm not sure how we'll get about a million pins in there, but it's the only option."

@foone These still exist, lol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM5#/media/File%3AAMD_AM5_Socket.png

@foone I worked for the company that made these in the 90s. and they got bigger than that.

@foone Parallelallelallel

@foone Ironically multi-port serial cards look just like that. :)

@foone Isn't that a SCSI card?

@foone I mean, that's just UW SCSI ;-)