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mauvehaus on July 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

No, because a VGA port is a DE-15 and a DA-15 is used for, uh, something?

ETA: Oh hey, just to make things confusing, Apple used DA-15 for video on older Macs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature

fredoralive on July 25, 2025 [–]

DA15 was used for amongst other things Mac video outputs in the beige era, PC joystick / MIDI ports and Ethernet AUI ports.

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