On 25 Nov 2011 at 21:55, Tony Duell wrote:
  Any ideas? I am getting fed up with having to re-make
a cable which I
 know I made a couple years earlier, but for a different machine, and
 which I now can't find. 
I keep a wall-mounted pegboard on which I hang non-duplicate cables,
each with a tag attached to it that tells its funciton.  Duplicates
are squirreled away in boxes where I can forget about them.
--Chuck