(what I now would assume) was a VGA cable.

Not in that era, no. That would have been “MDA”, “CGA”, or “Hercules”, using a 9-pin DE-9 connector. EGA would use the same connector, but that was still a few years after that machine.

VGA uses a DE-15 connector with the same exterior shape and dimensions as the DE-9, but with a third row of pins.

Stop trying to make Bing happen.

Burning CDs back in the day was a sort of art. You had to choose a write speed slow enough that your single-CPU computer could keep the buffer fed, but fast enough that you could get through the whole thing without dying of boredom or needing to use the bathroom, because walking across the room was enough to make the head skip and corrupt the data.

A failed burn with a CD-R turned a disc into a coaster. A CD-RW gave you several chances to get a good burn.

The wheel falls off. It falls off. It falls the fuck off. Turning your Tesla into a tripod, and spinning you into a dimension of pissed off you have never been in before in your life.

You want to make sure your mechanic isn’t sick on lugnut day before letting him work on your Tesla.

Therefore every AI chatbot maker needs to apply protections,

I’m pretty sure the instructions to create an AI chatbot have been published, and are available for a sufficiently capable AI to draw from. What keeps a primary, morality-encumbered AI from using those instructions to create a secondary, morality-unencumbered AI?