December 2002
Beginner to intermediate
808 pages
23h 40m
English
FireWire is Apple’s trademarked version of the standard called IEEE 1394. It’s a high-performance serial bus (see the description of a bus in the ADB explanation on page 677) for connecting up to 63 devices through one port on your Mac. FireWire is only built into the newer Macs, like the 1999 blueand-white G3s and up. Many iMacs and laptops have FireWire ports.
This symbol identifies a FireWire port.

The big deal about FireWire is this: It’s extremely fast; you can connect 63 devices in any which way you like, such as in a star or tree pattern, and up to 16 in a single chain; you can hot swap them in and out without having ...
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