Re: OT: Orange Micro (WAS:RAM-4-GS Progress)

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

I though USB 2.0 was faster than Firewire...

USB 2.0: 480mbs
Firewire: 400mbs

Or am I blowing smoke?

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> "Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in 
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> : In article <curbl201hlk@news1.newsguy.com>,
> : David Chiu <none@nowhere.org> top-posted (grr):
> : >The irony of it is that after all these years and all the Apple II 
> peripheral
> : >companies that came and went... Orange Micro is still in business 
> (albeit not
> : >in the business of making Apple II peripherals anymore.)
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> : I've got one of their FireWire webcams on my desk.  It works better than
> : most of the USB webcams I've run across...the framerate is more steady 
> than
> : on most.
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> Scott, that is because FireWire is 4 times faster than USB.
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