Apple.com circa Apr. 4th 1997

[IJ Reilly]

I know that, it's just the PC side somehow didn't want to use Apple's "term", "firewire", so they used the IEEE term.

For a short while Apple charged a nominal fee for the use of Firewire, the technology if not the name. They dropped the fee but possibly continued to license the use of the name. So perhaps companies such as Sony which wanted to use Firewire decided to call it by its IEEE spec. That's my only theory.

 

[FF_productions]

I wish firewire took off like USB did, it was always and still is better then USB, I hate my external USB drives, they are nothing like the FW ones (FW more expensive which makes sense).

 

[DoFoT9]

Gosh how things have changed, 12 years who would have thought the kinda things we are seeing now. Kudos to Apple.

you know your old when you start saying things like that!!! hahaha

 

[MacsRgr8]

Major bad times OS-wise back then...

OS 8 never was what it should / could have been.
Copland? Pink Project?
Couldn't do it... therefore it became a renewed Sysem 7 with some Copland features, and that Platinum look!

LOL... got Mac OS 8.1 running on my TAM...

 

[jodelli]

Wowser! Hope I win that new 3400 Power Book. And Macworld's in Boston again...