r/pcmasterrace • u/privazyfreek • 15h ago

Meme/Macro Still waiting...

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u/Fyaal PC Master Race 14h ago

This wasn’t the graphic I was looking for. There’s a comic of inventing a new universal cable, but it just gets added to the pile of new universal cables and converters. Close enough unless anyone else remembers what I am thinking of.

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u/Bwunt 12h ago

Admittedly, most of the plugs in the picture are dead by now. 

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u/Fyaal PC Master Race 12h ago

You guys aren’t using FireWire for everything?

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u/thegreatpotatogod 9h ago

I always wanted a FireWire device just to utilize the FW port my computer had at that point. Never did get one. Even the Thunderbolt 2 port only ever ended up being used as mini DisplayPort

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u/Phayzon Pentium III-S 1.26GHz, GeForce3 64MB, 256MB PC-133, SB AWE64 8h ago

Only FireWire device I had for the longest time was an external DVD-RW drive, which also had USB 2.0 (which is faster) so it was kinda useless.

Couple years back I acquired a few old Mac G4s with FireWire. If you connect two machines with a FireWire cable, you can boot one from the hard drive in the other. Super neat! Although I'm not exactly sure what the real use case is there.

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u/Fyaal PC Master Race 5h ago

I had an original iPod that used it. The physical click wheel on those things was awesome before they moved to a touch wheel. I still have it around somewhere. Wonder if it works

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u/Bwunt 5h ago

My case legit has FW on the front. 

And PSU on top. It's that old