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Headphone jack is an output. The jack they've hotwired is an input.
Me:
Before the mid-to-late 1990s, on the other hand...
Connecting cables was easy, the nightmare was getting the OS to recognise the devices.
You better hold onto those driver discs.
Yes, but there were so many different cable standards that you weren't always sure you had the right one on hand. USB has been such a godsend that the young'ns will never fully appreciate.
That's what the Cable Box™ was for. The only time a self respecting cable collector would not have the right cable was the week after getting rid of some of the most "legacy" cables.
Love Grafo.
It's hard to tell with the wire covering part of the label.
You can see enough to tell it's an I (in), not an O (out) - plus the fact there's only room for one more letter behind the copper, as demonstrated by the hidden P in "TAPE" above. Having dealt with this sort of equipment enough in my life, those were really the only two possibilities.