Cables and Interconnects
Remember taking Biology class? It's more than likely you had a professor who thought it would be fun to show you PowerPoint slideshows of diagrams and charts. It wasn't fun, was it? Blame it on interconnecting computer cables. Yep, all those lectures would not have been possible without an A/V cable, nor the Ethernet cable it took for your professor to access the internet and collect those images.
Monitor Cables
"Don't you wonder sometimes 'bout sound and vision?" Well, you definitely do when you're sitting in front of your HDTV, fiddling with your computer and hoping you can watch your downloaded Season 2 of True Blood on the bigger screen...but for some reason the image won't pop up and all you get is some weird electronic glitchy sound. Did you get an A/V cable that works for both your computer and your TV? There are DVI, VGA, SVGA, HDMI, plus adapters for them. DVI stands for Digital Video Interface and it is used to connect your computer to projectors so you can see the image on your screen up on the wall, of say, a classroomit will work for any resolution up to 1080 (given that your TV can support it). A common conversion is DVI to HDMI. RCA cannot be connected directly to your computer but you can buy an adapter like VGA to RCA.
Firewire and USB
These are the cables you use to connect your devices to your computer: things like external hard drives, printers, mp3 players, cameras, mice and keyboardsyou get the gist. Firewire can transfer data at a much faster rate, however, due to popularity USB sort of took over as the dominant cable. Firewire is great for transferring big files like audio and video capture. There are different pin sizes you should be aware of, and thus wires are not always compatible with the device or computer port.
Ethernet and Modem Cables
There isn't much to say about these cables except they connect you to the internet, which in turn connects you to social networking sites, which in consequence means you've just lost all rights to your privacy, and therefore this means you're officially in the 21st century.
Hardware Cables
Parallel cables connect printers to your computers. They're usually for older printers, though. SATA and SCSI cables are for very specific things, like connecting hard drives, motherboards, and stuff like that. They're for people who want to work on their computers, build computers, or alter the interior for whatever reason. These can send data pretty fast, too, like 300MB/sec.
KVM Switches
KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse Switch) is super useful because it allows you control several computers from a single keyboard/mouse set-up. They're useful in classroom settings and any other computer setup that requires a lot of data to be stored (one computer may not be enough). So whether you're trying to control a network of computers that are built to answer the ultimate question, "What's the meaning of life, the Universe, and everything?" or whether you just want to control the computers in a classroom so your students can't log onto Facebook, these switches will solve your problem... maybe.
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