Miphee wrote on 2021-06-10, 18:57:
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-06-10, 18:39:
Firewire is a bit the same as SCSI is for me, I've got like one thing of each interface type, speed and generation and getting them to talk to each other is challenging.
First time I seent a desktop wifi card with internal antenna connectors though.
Tried the wifi now and it really needs that antenna, signal strength is crap without it.
I thought firewire got extinct when Intel decided to support the USB standard.
You could find an antenna in a busted up laptop, or some wifi routers are connected like that internally, if they don't have removable antennas, they probably have a "bit of wire" one stuffed up the plastic shell with that end plugged into the board. Later WRT54G/L etc were like that. Also one or two android TV boxes I've been in had an internal "patch" antenna taped inside the case using that connector. Might be worth checking any e-waste with wifi really, since I've also seen it in some early android tablets that used a miniPCI wifi card.
I think Apple kept firewire on life support for a while, for the video professionals market that had it in higher end cameras.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.