FireWire was so good. RIP to a real one
FireWire
Submitted 17 hours ago by cm0002@europe.pub to memes@sopuli.xyz
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moonshadow@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
yukichigai@kbin.earth 11 hours ago
It was great in design but too few peripherals made use of it. The lack of input devices (e.g. mice, joystick, keyboards) meant that for most people it was far less useful than USB.
Still pretty cool that you could (and still can) use it for networking in a pinch, not to mention the decades worth of video devices that will happily dump their contents to DV video as long as you have a FireWire port. Finding a VCR with DV output is one of the best ways to digitize old VHS recordings if you can't set up VHS-decode.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
60 amps through those skinny wires? I’m no engineer but eve I can see that’s going to get hot.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Shoulda used fibre. Glass is naturally insulating.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I think it would only be five amps.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
PC PSU output 3, 5, and 12V
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Are you going to be running 120 volts into your graphics card? That would be brave
pageflight@piefed.social 14 hours ago
That’s certainly no XT60 on the end!
eurodyne@piefed.world 17 hours ago
I still have a firewire 800 drive connected to my Plex server. Works great!
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
A yes, FireWire and firewire.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
FireWire 2001
dai@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Had hoped someone posted this.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Is that the gpu wire that keeps catching on fire?
I don’t think you should besmirch the good name of FireWire with such comparisons.
untorquer@quokk.au 14 hours ago
Say what you will that gpu wire never sold out like his old man.