Somebody toasted a Apple G3 at school today!

[erikiksaz]

We have this firewire Dazzle Video Conversion thing at school, which is basically a unit that accepts analog video and digitizes it. Anyways, one of the smart asses in Tv Production runs an s-video cable into the Dazzle unit, and looks to the back of the G3 for the other s-video connector. Now, you may be saying to yourself, "but there isn't an s-video connector on any standard G3." AND coupled with the fact that the Dazzle was supposed to be connected to the computer by means of firewire. Anyways, the fool looked around the back of the computer, and lo and behold, there was the PS2 port! Looks awful like a S-video, doesn't it? Needless to say, after he somehow jammed that s-video into the PS2, the comp went haywire. No smoke though 🙁









😀

 

[amnesiac]

That defies all current definitions of stupidity.


...ok not quite, but that's still dumb.

 

[rudeguy]

that mac prolly deserved it

 

[TripperJoe]

My s-video to composite adapter didn't fit, so i broke some pins off and jammed it in. Finally got TV-out to work 🙂

But then again, i had the fortune of knowing it wasn't a ps2 port...

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
that mac prolly deserved it

oooo thats mean

 

[LiekOMG]

Uhhh, since when do Macs have PS/2 ports?

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: DOACleric
Uhhh, since when do Macs have PS/2 ports?

I think he meant the serial bus or whatever they call it... aren't those the same as S-video ports?

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: DOACleric
Uhhh, since when do Macs have PS/2 ports?

They don't

 

[LiekOMG]

It was an ADB port, not a PS/2. Same usage though.

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: DOACleric
It was an ADB port, not a PS/2. Same usage though.

Yeah, i think so. I've always thought they were PS2 because they looked similar. Anyways, that was our ONLY digital video editing system, so we be fuct 🙁

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: DOACleric
It was an ADB port, not a PS/2. Same usage though.

From the results, i'm guessing the voltage isn't transmitted on the same pins. 😛

 

[Chrishuff1]

PICS? 😀😉

 

[SSP]

Make him pay for a better PC. 😉

 

[mpitts]

Time to get a dualie CPU G4. 😀

 

[ViRGE]

Are you sure it was an ADB port? The old serial port is pin for pin compatible between S-Video and the Mac; we've had users plug their serial devices in to the S-Video port on PowerBook G3's on more than 1 occassion.

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Are you sure it was an ADB port? The old serial port is pin for pin compatible between S-Video and the Mac; we've had users plug their serial devices in to the S-Video port on PowerBook G3's on more than 1 occassion.

Shoot, whatever it was, it wasn't good!

 

[yoda291]

I wasn't aware you could toast fruit.

 

[randomlinh]

fruit... place in toaster... toasted 🙂

 

[ViRGE]

Baked Apple.😀

 

[ElFenix]

theres some stupid people in the world.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
theres some stupid people in the world.

Geez, I'm sorry I didn't know about the toasted fruit. you dont' have to get all prissy about it 😛

jk