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Viorel
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Negoita <vio...@magnum.phyast.pitt.edu> wrote:
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I've never seen a FireWire plug up close, but why didn't they design it
so a 4-pin cable could be plugged into a 6-pin receptacle (I assume it's
not compatible)?
Jim
The other group is the consumer electronics folks - Sony, etc. - that make
stand-alone devices like digital camcorders that require their own power
source independent to a computer and they want to save as much space as
possible (the 6 conductor connectors are larger than the 4 conductor
version) on the device. These companies already have to provide external
power (usually a wall transformer), so they aren't interested in the 6 wire
cables. Also, remember that they were the first to the market with 1394
devices, not computer companies.
Bobby Brim
bb...@qni.com
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