• Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      You probably know this, but for anyone curious: Firewire was a different port/cable format than USB, and was used almost exclusively by Apple and Sony.

      • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 months ago

        Punk ass kids like me appreciate the context lol.

        God love universal. Work in a retirement home and have a bucket full of old cords for when running into older hardware.

        I took for granted how easy it is to connect things now.

        • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          Things are much easier now, to be sure. The Mac/Amiga IOMega Zip drives actually used SCSI (pronounced “Skuzzy”), which was much faster than the parallel ports we Windows users got. I hope you don’t have to deal with SCSI! The myriad connector types were a pain, and the termination was no fun.

      • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Lots of video cameras and analog (eg. Composite video) to digital video converters had FireWire interfaces. At the time Apple (Final Cut Pro) and Sony (Vegas) also dominated the video editing software market.

        • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          That’s true, it was big in the media world for a minute. Perhaps because Sony Vaio and Apple computers were used heavily in that space?

          As I recall, Firewire was faster and more capable than USB, but USB was cheaper to implement on small stuff like mice and keyboards, so it became the defacto standard.