FireWire ran external hard drives at full speed when USB physically couldn't, but it still lost
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If you used a Mac in the late 1990s or early 2000s, chances are you plugged something into your computer with a FireWire cable at some point. The port looked nothing like the USB connectors most people were already used to: a chunky, keyed shape that only went in one way, but easy to orient once you knew what you were looking at. You plugged it in and it usually worked without driver installs or configuration dialogs. Digital camcorders, external hard drives, audio interfaces, even another Mac a
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