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Ironically it took Firewire in addition to USB for the Mac to free itself from legacy ports. SCSI, for instance, wasn't able to run over USB.
by bluedino 6y ago
Ironically it took Firewire in addition to USB for the Mac to free itself from legacy ports. SCSI, for instance, wasn't able to run over USB.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoIndeed. And for people who assume USB's success was due to the iPod, remember that the first iPods were Firewire-only. By the time iPods adopted USB, USB was already popular.