Old cables and chargers tend to accumulate, bundle and spread uncontrollably – for some reason, old cables tend to linger around for a long time after the device they belonged to is gone, that’s why we all have cables that cannot be plugged into any of our existing devices. However, there is another scenario that is just as annoying: you have an old piece of electronics that has not been turned on in a very long time, but you need it to extract some important information stored in its memory and you don’t know which of your cables fits into the plug of the device.
When it comes to solving the latter issue, the bad news is that you will have to check each of your old cables to see whether it fits into the old plug, but there is good news, too: the search for the right cable will be an excellent opportunity for you to organize your old cables. You may find that you need a vga to hdmi converter cable. And you will surely have some cables that no longer fit anywhere and that you should take to a cable recycler (who will pay for it) and you will also have some that still have matching devices and can be useful.