I don’t know much about cables so if type something wrong forgive me …

I was wondering around with some old stuff, and found this cable that is usb to usb “as shown in the image below”

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hHpyqvvnS._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg

Now what i thought was that it might be used to connect 2 computers with each other so i tried that and connected 2 computers with each other using it and nothing happened Can anyone tell me what this cable is even used for ???

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    41 year ago

    I’ve used these while developing consumer electronics. One product had only a single USB port, and it acted in device mode during bootup for debugging purposes before switching to host mode so it could talk to peripheral devices.