> This is particularly amusing for anyone who was around in the 90s But that's just it: I was around in the 1990s and I owned Macs and PCs throughout that peri

> This is particularly amusing for anyone who was around in the 90s But that's just it: I was around in the 1990s and I owned Macs and PCs throughout that period. ADB had a 13-year run, sure, but it wasn't a "standard" for any device except a Mac. PCs used PS/2 connectors. Firewire is a standard, but Apple was the only company really pushing it. You're right - and I'm dead wrong - about Apple pushing USB. > it wasn't until the second generation iMac before they even added a Firewire port I thought Firewire was a common option on G3s in the late 1990s? May be misremembering. > was intended as a replacement for high-performance SCSI interfaces Thanks for bringing that up. Yes at the time SCSI interfaces were more high-performance than IDE (and allowed more devices) but only at the expense of the more common emergent standard of IDE / EIDE. You do raise some good points however, and you're also right that of course Firewire wasn't a replacement for ADB, I'm not really sure why I said that :(