What did this once belong to? :)

[paul.deitch]

I guess most people have old cables lying around from various bits and pieces that they have acquired and then later sold/dumped etc.
Now I have a bunch of very dusty Scart and S-Video, Firewire and so on cables and interfaces but this one below I just have no recollection of.

It has a 15 pin male D plug which splits to a 15 pin female D plug and two 5 pin Din plugs!
What could it be from?

[camel_landy]

Anything to do with MIDI?

IIRC - MIDI uses the 5 pin DIN too.

M

[LordLoveLength]

Yep - sound card joystick port cable

[paul.deitch]

Thanks! I do have vague memories of buying a joystick with MS Flight Simulator and Tomb Raider 1 in the 80s. That must be it.
I never got on with playing games on a PC. I'm more of a play cards with your friends guy. May be I'll find the joystick in the cellar somewhere