#firewire — Public Fediverse posts

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

So so weird! Using #dvgrab to capture footage from old DV video tapes and all seems to be going well. But using the dv2 format I get clips where audio is sped up with several clips. So I tried dv1, seemed fine, but #FinalCutPro doesn't take these files. Neither does the mov format. So I tried the raw format and that worked fine. But now there's one clip where audio is pitched down by more than 2 steps. So weird!

#video #camera #firewire #miniDV #Apple

Just gutted this 2008 iMac intel with 4GB of RAM.

#firewire

Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/minidv-with-raspberry-pi-firewire-hat/

#HackerNews #MiniDV #RaspberryPi #FireWire #TechRevival #DIY

Guess what? Updated to #MacOS #Tahoe this morning and now my RME Fireface 800 can go to the trash, because #Apple silently dropped #Firewire support 😒 . That really is planned obsolescence at its best, and I would have expected at least a warning before the upgrade, or a long term support option for latest XCode/iOS SDKs on legacy OS versions.

🔥🎩 "FireWire on Pi: The Epic Saga" 🎩🔥— A tale of clinging to obsolete tech like a toddler to a security blanket, when all modern solutions have moved on. Why wrestle with a Raspberry Pi to revive a relic when even Linux is on its way to ditching that old friend by 2029? 🤔🚀
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/ #FireWire #RaspberryPi #obsoleteTech #techSaga #Linux2029 #retroComputing #HackerNews #ngated

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/

#HackerNews #Using #FireWire #on #a #Raspberry #Pi #RaspberryPi #FireWire #TechTutorials #Hardware #Hacking

Un pilote open source en développement ramène le FireWire dans macOS Tahoe http://dlvr.it/TRX6VN #macOSTahoe #FireWire

Okay #hardware #nerd types and #DataHoarders or #DigitalArchivists...

I'm using #Ubuntu #Linux on an old #iMac with #dvgrab to download the exact copies of all my #MiniDV tapes in #DV format.

But I have to say... This thing is a monster.

Can anyone recommend a laptop with #Firewire 800 that also runs Linux well?

Now, I’m not exactly what you would call a retro hardware enthusiast, but even I knew Iomega never made a FireWire ZIP drive.

Nice! I was able to use #dvgrab with my #FireWire card and #DV #camera without any configuration on #Fedora #Linux. I won't be sticking to it because of the short term support, but happy to know that part of my old PC will work just fine under Linux!

Thinking about going with #AlmaLinux instead because of the longer support cycle. That or #ZorinOS.

First power-on in 26 years.
#linux #firewire

Thinking about repurposing my old #PC. It’s an #Intel i7-3770 with 32GB of DDR3 800 MHz RAM (though CPU-Z reports 672.5 MHz?). Intel HD graphics 4000, my GTX 950 died. Currently running #Windows10 but should wipe it and run a #Linux distro. Oh, it has a #FireWire card for DV capture. It’s important that keeps functioning.

I wonder if adding a “new” dedicated GPU would still be worth it?

It also doesn’t help I don’t know yet what to do with it. I have my #Mac for video, photo and music…

EDIT: It has found a home!

Free to a good home: A Belkin FireWire 400 cable. :apple_inc:

#Macintosh #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #FireWire #CableStash

@SuperDicq An early version of #firewire ?

Esta guía visual es perfecta para identificar rápidamente los puertos más comunes, desde los clásicos #VGA y #Serial hasta los modernos #USB-C y #Thunderbolt. Ideal para guardar o compartir con ese amigo que siempre se confunde.
¿Cuál de estos puertos es el que más usas hoy en día? ¿Todavía conservas algún equipo con puerto Paralelo o #FireWire?
#Informática #Hardware #Tecnología #GuíaVisual #PC #SoporteTécnico #RetroGaming #Computación #Ciencia

Generic USB hard drive enclosure test + RIP WD Caviar 1210

https://makertube.net/w/kxSeQQt6893KUy1k44o1oJ

Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.

Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.

Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.

#retrocomputing

I remembered I may have some files on an old hard drive and was presented with these lovely connection options.

Amazingly I still have the #firewire 800-to-400 cable but the only computer I can plug it into (2009 MacBook) has a dud battery.

So now I need to buy either some kind of FW adapter or mini-USB to USB-C cable.

I never looked into the sata option, anyone know what that is?

#usb #oldhardware

I honestly didn’t know modern #macOS still includes the DVD Player app. So let me get this straight: they removed #FireWire support in #Tahoe, but kept the DVD Player app? @marioguzman #macOSTahoe
https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115147629022764936

Good grief #FireWire is finicky! Not sure if it's actually the #miniDV #Camera being troublesome or just the FireWire interface on #MacOS. I takes several reconnects and reboots (of both camera and computer) for the camera to be properly recognised by the OS.

And even during import I've already had a data connection loss. The FireWire cable is brand new, but the Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 2 -> FireWire adapters aren't. So...

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes
https://furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/
#ycombinator #music #client #player #apple_music #ipod #jukebox #play #clickwheel #firewire #playback #retro #mac_os #mac #mac_os_x #os_x #osx

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127172338642
If anyone needs a Firewire audio interface, I'll sell this for $10 locally, free delivery at a convenient metro station.

M-Audio FireWire Solo

#montreal #qc #firewire #maudio #classified #forsale #ad

Fedora proposes dropping support for i686, Apple finally kills off FireWire, installing Linux on a $1600 mixing console, and Flathub reaches 3 billion downloads.

https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/06/fedora-proposal-to-drop-i686/

Mit #MacOS 26 Tahoe endet eine Ära: #Apple stellt den Support für #FireWire vollständig ein. Der einst revolutionäre Standard weicht endgültig moderneren Schnittstellen. https://winfuture.de/news,151764.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia