This is Steve Jobs introducing Firewire (IEEE 1394) to the masses at MacWorld SF 1999.
Duration : 0:8:5
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check for an IEEE …
check for an IEEE 1394 port. Same thing, most PCs haev them.
well look whatever, …
well look whatever, but the 2nd gen imacs hadn’t be introduced by this stage - the point is it’s 60% of the hard drive you’re speaking of but the same size as a power brick, which was pretty good by those days’ standards
2nd Gen of a imac …
2nd Gen of a imac g3 (slot loading) had 10 GB hard drives
Were apps really …
Were apps really that small? *sarcasm*
take into account …
take into account the imac g3’s hard drive was only 4gb, a 6gb external drive that small was pretty good back then
haha, 6:14
6 GB …
haha, 6:14
6 GB external drive! look how big it is!
compardes to what we have today, tiny little thin 10 GB memory sticks! thats more of a memory brick! lol
i want to get a …
i want to get a camera and miniDV are the best priced but they all connect through firewire, problem is my laptop doesnt have a firewire port, can i get an adapter or something like that
nothing is gonna …
nothing is gonna stop him from making a keynote speech! GO STEVE JOBS! =)
And from this day …
And from this day forth, Steve carried a water bottle…
I remember …
I remember listening to this keynote over the net (there was no streaming video back then). Jobs also briefly mentioned a “soon to be released program called Final Cut”
This keynote changed my life.
OMG OMG OMG a 6 …
OMG OMG OMG a 6 GIGABYTE DRIVE!!!!!!
hahaha, my 160 GB is 1/3 the size
those power mac g3′ …
those power mac g3’s sure are blazing, they’ll just tear through word 98 hahaha
this product was …
this product was made on 1999 and at that time 6GB was a lot of space
he coughed alot
he coughed alot
you can tell he has …
you can tell he has a cold, it doesnt sound like steve at all
By the way, ahahah …
By the way, ahahah that 6 gb drive is huge, you can get like a tb these days for that size, ahahaha
How did they get …
How did they get all those camera companies to put a firewire on there cameras? Wasnt firewire invented after the cameras he showing us?
Well, then they …
Well, then they need to make a Firewire flash drive.
Sweet Lord, that …
Sweet Lord, that throat-clearing tick he had back then is very distracting. Must have given up dairy since then…
his voice has …
his voice has changed
ahem, 480 Mbps …
ahem, 480 Mbps means 480 Megabitspersecond which are 60 Mbyte/s. And Firewire is 400 Mbytes/s, Firewire 400 runs @ 3200 Mbps and Firewire 800 runs @ 6400 Mbps
Mbps = 1/8 Mbytes/s.
Get the point?
USB sucks.
I love my PowerMac …
I love my PowerMac G3…
“It’s super fast…”
omg i love you stevie
Oh ok, sorry I …
Oh ok, sorry I misinterpreted what you were saying.
Right, my point was …
Right, my point was that it was released as a public standard that anyone can use. The “FireWire” name is an Apple trademark. If you use it on your product packaging, you have to pay Apple. You can use it without paying Apple as long as you don’t use the Trademark.
the IEEE 1394 …
the IEEE 1394 standard was made by Apple though! So it is actually called Firewire.