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> On Feb 19, 2021, at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Tremmel <wolfgang.trem...@de-cix.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> Do you remember the Cisco HDCI connectors? 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCI
> 
> I once shipped a Cisco 4500 plus some cables to a remote data center and 
> asked the local guys to cable them for me.
> With Cisco you could check the cable type and if they were properly attached. 
> They were not.
> 
> I asked for a check and the local guy confirmed me three times that the 
> cables were properly plugged. 
> At the end I gave up, and took the 3 hour drive to the datacenter to check 
> myself.
> 
> Problem was that, while the casing of the connector is asymmetrical, the pins 
> inside are symmetrical.
> And the local guy was quite strong.
> 
> Yes, he managed to plug in the cables 180° flipped, bending the case, but he 
> got them in.
> He was quite embarrassed when I fixed the cabling problem in 10 seconds.
> 
> That must have been 1995 or so....
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
> 
>> On 16. Feb 2021, at 20:37, John Kristoff <j...@dataplane.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Which examples would make up your top three?
> 
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