Back in the days when TV cameras were half the size of a car, they all used a cable called TV101 - because it has a hundred and one connectors in the bundle. It looks like this:
and it's a couple of inches across. To attach one of these connectors to the line takes a good couple of days.
When I was a baby engineer, I was on an outside broadcast where the riggers, after carefully checking that it was unused, laid a cable across the top of a rail track.
An hour later, a passing train neatly trisected the cable into to short lengths, with connectors on one end only, and one length of 4'8-1/2" with no connectors at all...
Three guesses who had to put connectors on the ends of the other two bits?
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