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At the time, music devices were using serial connections if you can believe that, and FireWire was the fastest thing on the market, only available with iPods.

Can't remember that. Mine had usb, was available before iPod and the speed never bothered me.




Nitpick: I don't think the OP meant USB when he said "serial connection", but USB _is_ a serial connection (as is FireWire)


Ok, fair point. When I hear serial I think something along the lines of rs232 and I guess so do others.


I remember it. I had some Philips MP3 player and I remember the software being horrible and the transfers taking hours at a time. The first time I saw iTunes and an iPod I was sold. iTunes used to be pretty incredible at the time...


Ok. I remember my got-it-with-my laptop mp3 player and my brothers Creative something.

I'm sure both used USB. Mine was actually a glorified usb stick so I just plugged it into my computer.




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