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Re: Firewire?

From Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Firewire?
Date 2016-02-10 12:45 -0500
Organization National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, philo wrote:

> On 02/09/2016 07:21 PM, Dave Garland wrote:
>> On 2/9/2016 6:24 PM, philo wrote:
>>> On 02/09/2016 04:43 PM, gareth wrote:
>>>> Has Firewire now died the death in the face of very high speed USB?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's been fairly dead for quite a few years. It was most used by Apple
>>> who now has gone to Thunderbolt.
>> 
>> It was popular in the video market. I've got a videocam and a portable
>> hard drive that connect with Firewire.
>> 
>
> My (backup) slide and film scanner is firewire only, so I am going to always 
> have such a port available.
>
>
I wsa going to say that so long as people have things that use Firewire, 
it can't be "obsolete" for them.

   Michael

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Firewire? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-09 22:43 +0000
  Re: Firewire? "Blanco" <rko4410@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 11:20 +1100
  Re: Firewire? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-02-09 18:24 -0600
    Re: Firewire? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-09 19:21 -0600
      Re: Firewire? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-02-10 04:37 -0600
        Re: Firewire? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-10 12:45 -0500
    Re: Firewire? Andy Burns <usenet.jan2016@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-02-10 17:39 +0000
    Re: Firewire? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-14 10:03 -0500
      Re: Firewire? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 12:23 -0500
        Re: Firewire? "Hilo Black" <hbk897@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 04:55 +1100
  Re: Firewire? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-09 19:39 -0500
    Re: Firewire? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-09 21:44 -0500
      Re: Firewire? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 06:14 -0500
        Re: Firewire? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-02-10 10:38 -0600
      Re: Firewire? Andy Burns <usenet.jan2016@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-02-10 17:44 +0000
        Re: Firewire? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-10 15:30 -0500

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