2507: "USV-C"

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2507: "USV-C"

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Just today I was listening to a concert where one of the band members referred to USB as UCB, which is apparently a biopharmaceutical company.
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Isn't this more of a cursed cable than a cursed connector?
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At what point along it does it stop being a connector?
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Why does it need to stop being a connector? A cable still connects things.
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ratammer wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:44 pm At what point along it does it stop being a connector?
To me a connector is what's on either end of a cable, so I guess as soon as there's a wire bit in the middle? I definitely wouldn't call a USB cable a connector.
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somitomi wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 8:13 pm
ratammer wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:44 pm At what point along it does it stop being a connector?
To me a connector is what's on either end of a cable, so I guess as soon as there's a wire bit in the middle? I definitely wouldn't call a USB cable a connector.
A wire is a connector for connecting two other connectors, I reckon.
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It's connectors all the way down?
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