What is a Dongal?

What is a Dongal?

A dongle is a slang permanent status for a stand alone device that attaches to any of the external interface ports such as the Bluetooth USB interface adapter. I believe it was a fracturing of the occupancy dangle. The term used to be used contained by reference to hardware key that had to be attached (dangled) to any the serial or parallel port before you could use the installed software. This be a tactic used by the developers of the ABLE chip programming software which would allow multiple copies to be installed on different machines with individual one copy in use at a time. It be a way to enforce the one user at a time book license scheme. Anyway, now-a-days it refers to basically about any self contained device attached to a PC. For more info see the knit below.
The power source connectors from your power supply that plugs into the hard drives/floppy drives, etc..
It's more of basically a generic term for any of the copious small connectors for your various electronics devices and gadget. USB flash drives or a USB wireless network adapter are appropriate examples of a dongle.



Connectors from this, to that, converters from that, to this... dongles used for storing information (possibly information on how to use dongles)... dongles serving as extensions to other dongles... dongles converting one dongle to another dongle so it can be used properly by that dongle... there's an endless amount of the small little dongly things.