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[Rezwan]

jamesr wrote: firewire is just a name (mainly used by apple) for IEEE1394 – Sony used to call it i.Link.

Yeah, those mac folks like to make things sound magical and mystical. “firewire”. And here it’s just your basic IEEE1394.

If your PC doesn’t have one you’ll need to get an interface card to put in it – like these.

…and then I just slide this mystical card into the back of the big rectangular thing? Will I know where to slide it in? Or does someone have to come with a screw driver, open it up and install it somehow?

Alternatively if another PC there has one, capture the material on that and copy it over.

You mean, burn it onto a dvd and then copy the dvd contents onto the 2nd computer?

Just to confuse things a newer firewire 800 standard (IEE1394b) is also around, the old one runs at 400Mbps, which has a yet another type of connector.

Ah! This, I knew. Ending on a sense of omniscience.