Any Idea what type of charging port this is, I thought it was ye old Mini B, but its too thick. We’re having a clearout and found our old Camcorder, the model is a Luminox LXDV750 12.0 MEGA MAX, can anyone help me find this port?
Any Idea what type of charging port this is, I thought it was ye old Mini B, but its too thick. We’re having a clearout and found our old Camcorder, the model is a Luminox LXDV750 12.0 MEGA MAX, can anyone help me find this port?
FireWire 400
Edit: for all of you kids out there, fire wire 400 came out around the same time USB 2.0, but it was faster superior. FireWire 400 (400 Mb/s)became FireWire 800 (800Mb/s), which eventually became thunderbolt (10Gb/s). Then thunderbolt 2 (20 Gb/s), thunderbolt 3 (40 Gb/s), thunderbolt 4 (40Gb/s + PCIe 32Gb/s), thunderbolt 5 (80Gb/s with 120Gb/s boost), all over a standard USB-C connection.
That’s 4x faster than a USB 3.2 connection, and 8x faster than a USB 3.0 connection. that’s 250x faster than a USB 2.0 connection.
Thanks to Apple, Sony, and Intel
(For reference, DDR5 RAM can only read/write at just over 51 GB/s)
Thunderbolt 6 is in the works
That’s a different shape than the port OP showed.
Hmmm… I think you’re right
So you agree what OP posted a picture of has a totally different shape port than a FireWire port?
Let’s also acknowledge its role in making the iPod possible. While the iPod skyrocketed to popularity once it was supported on Windows and the USB2.0 dock connector was added, Firewire 400 made the original iPod possible in the first place. The then common USB 1.1 was too slow to realistically transfer music, so they chose to build the original iPod with Firewire as it’d already been used in the iMac, which had been positioned as a “digital hub” compatible with (brining it full circle to OPs question) digital camcorders of the day.
No doubt! The Original iPod was the consumer breakthrough for FireWire 400 – unless you count the MiniDisc players, but few people outside Japan cared about those (except me, wee!). I never gave up my NetMD player/recorder-- it was stolen!
But Apple (like Sony and Intel) were heavily invested in FireWire, and the iPod seemed like the perfect kickoff, especially since USB 2.0 wasn’t ready when the 1st-Gen iPod premiered.
You’re like a spokesman for, or historian of, connection protocols; I love it.
You brought up MiniDisc players. I know I could always get something from ebay, but I’m going to Japan in a couple of months and that seems like the perfect excuse to look for a used MiniDisc player, possibly Japan exclusive. Do you have any recommendations of what I should look for?
this or this (https://www.etsy.com/listing/4554458635/sony-mz-r70-minidisc-player-faultygpla=1&gao=1&dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2F)
those are the same models had and are available to buy now
I remember it well. Worked in a lab setting doing computer work. The microscopes they used at the time were all firewire connections for the cameras to comminicate. It became semi annoying because it was always the 1 part not used anywhere else so they always needed to be purchased specifically for this dept at the time. It was also on tests back then for being certified since they wanted you to point out the differences and was normally thrown in as a wildcard answer.
FireWire/Thunderbolt is the best interconnect protocol. Unlike usb, it is constant bitrate. USB is variable bitrate, so its throughput speed is not guaranteed. but with FireWire/Thunderbolt, you always knew how fast it was going. That’s why it was always extremely good for, in your case, scientific equipment, cameras, video editing, large, external data storage devices, etc… and the data transfer is symmetrical rather than unidirectional like USB.
Thunderbolt is fucking awesome. My buddy just built out a new Plex server, and his 50 TB external storage box is running at thunderbolt 4. He can stream out multiple remote 4K streams, and his gigabit Internet connection AND his local network will both be bottlenecks far before his storage device throughput will be.
Edit: my buddies box could host 6 remote 4K streams, 12 local 4K streams, and he could edit 4 remote (local 10Gb/80Gb cached network) 8K edits in Adobe Premiere before he’d hit a single frame jitter.
system76 makes some nice boxes.
Last time I heard about system76 they were a mediocre OEM but one of the few selling Linux
Sorry, but what OP posted is not a FireWire 400 or 800 port. I still have a FireWire audio interface that I use and the ports look nothing like that.
Edit: to clarify, I am saying the picture OP posted is not FireWire, not what you posted in response.
That is a firewire 400 port, and that is the only firewire 400 port there ever was.
You’re thinking of something else, not related to fire wire. You are mistaken.
Edit: it seems they may have misidentified the port
What OP posted is NOT FireWire in any of its variants.
Here’s what FireWire 400 looks like.
Does that look like what OP posted?
Firewire also has a “small” version of the plug, I used it to copy my old DV tapes to the computer last year. (Finally, probably just in time before my old 2010 desktop PC kicks the bucket). Cameras hat the small version, it looks a bit similar to the old Mini USB.
On the other hand, it has 8GB of RAM in it, that is something in 2026.
Yes! It has the small 400 version that many cameras used, as well as the square 800 port, but none of them have the same shape as what OP posted.
Also, you’re blocked. So I won’t hear your diarrhea of complaints.
Wah wah wah! Boo hoo hoo!
Scream into the void. I’ll never hear you, lol.
Ummm… OK? I really don’t care.