• Uninvited Guest
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      99 months ago

      I remember having a FireWire in one of the family desktops when I was a kid. Can’t remember what we might have used it for, though.

      It resides in the same vague memory hole as the Zip drive that we had.

      • @Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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        49 months ago

        Yeah, the ZIP drive was just starting to take off when the Internet killed needing a sneaker net (at least of that size). Add in CD-ROM drives which you needed anyway. And good night.

      • @JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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        39 months ago

        I had a FireWire hard drive! I remember I bought specifically the enclosure that supported both standards since my motherboard had a FireWire port and on paper it was faster than usb! Too bad the HDD was as slow as molasses

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      29 months ago

      Now that was a peripheral protocol standard.

      sigh