Re: Is cable both power and data?

On 11/18/2020 11:33 AM, micky wrote:
> I have a Y-shaped USB cable, 18" long, with type A at one end and the
> two previously most common mini's at the other end, the one that used to
> be used for cell phones and the other slightly bigger one.
> 
> All 3 ends have the USB logo in the plastic.
> 
> Doesn't that mean it's both power and data?
> 
> If it were power only, it should not have the logo, right?
> 
> Yet when I plug one end into the computer and another end into a Harmony
> remote control, I get no beeps from the computer.  So that means the
> cable is defective, right?
> 
> 
> I've had it for years, but I guess I've never used it except for
> charging things.
> 

Suggestion: do what I did and drag out _every_ cable you can find in every 
box, bag, hole, hanging rack, whatever and then identify, sort, test, 
neatly bundle, and label as necessary. Then assess what you have. If you 
have no possible foreseeable use for any items bag them up and take them to 
the nearest recycler capable of properly handling them. I found myself 
getting rid of pounds and pounds of SCSI, IDE, VGA, NEMA, and some totally 
unidentifiable sorts of cables. Before anybody pipes up and says that NEMA 
cables are quite usable, having 40+ of them isn't. I still have an 
excessively huge number of cables, but at least I know what they are and 
where they are. Yeah, it is a PITA while doing the job but the results are 
satisfying.

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